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I
THE LIFE OF SOPHIA JEX-BLAKE
By the same Author
MONA MACLEAN
FELLOW TRAVELLERS
WINDYHAUGH
THE WAY OF ESCAPE
GROWTH
Samuel Laurence pinx.         Emery Walker ph. sc.
Sophia Jex-Blake
at the age of 25
THE LIFE OF
SOPHIA JEX-BLAKE
BY
MARGARET TODD, M.D.
(GRAHAM TRAVERS)
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1918
IICOPYRIGHT
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
TO ALL THOSE
MENTIONED IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES
OR PASSED OVER
FROM IGNORANCE OR WANT OF SPACE,
WHO LENT A HELPING HAND
TO A BRAVE AND UNSELFISH FIGHTER,
THIS BOOK IS
GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
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PREFACE
There are several reasons why it has seemed worth whileto write the life of Sophia Jex-Blake at some length.
1. She was one of the people who really do live. In thepresent day a woman is fitted into her profession almost asa man is. Sixty years ago a highly dowered girl was facedby a great venture, a great quest. The life before her wasan uncharted sea. She had to find her self, to find her way,to find her work. In many respects youth was incomparablythe most interesting period of a life history.
2. S. J.-B. has left behind her (as probably no woman of                        
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