Memorial signed by women doctors addressed to the University of London
June 1877
Fol. 1 r.
To The Chancellor and Senate of the
University of London
We the undersigned women,
who are engaged in the practice and study
of Medicine, have heard with the greatest
satisfaction of the resolution of the Senate,
to admit women to the Medical Examinations
and the Degrees of the London University.
The fact that a complete Medical
School for Women, with the necessary
hospital practice, has recently been
established in London, leads us to think
that the present is a fitting time for
extending to women the incentive to
wide and patient study, which is
afforded by the high standard of the
London Degree. We believe that this
incentive will prove to be in all its
bearings as valuable to women as it
has been to men.
We beg therefore to tender our
sincere thanks to the Senate for the
action they have taken, and to
express our earnest hope that the
necessary steps for giving effect to their
resolution will be completed as soon as possible.
Elizabeth Blackwell M.D.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, M.D. Paris, L.S.A. London. 4 Upper Berkeley Street
And twenty nine others
Elizabeth Walker Dunbar, M.D. (Zurich), L.K.Q.C.P.J. (Dublin)
(Signed) Louisa Atkins M.D. (Zurich) L.K.Q.C.P.J.
Sophia Jex-Blake M.D. (Bern), L.K.Q.C.P.J.
Mary Edith Pechey M.D. Bern, L.K.Q.C.P.J.
Isabel Thorn, late of Edinburgh University
Anna Dakens, M.D. Faculté de Medicine, Paris
Ann Reay Barker, M.D. (Paris)
Elizabeth Ireland Walker (121 Rue de Morny)
Helen Johnstone Bourchier, 85 Rue Mouge
M.G.C. Hoskins, 13 Rue des Halles
E.A. Momcey, 19 Rue de la Glaciere
Mary A. Marshall, 77 Rue Notre Deum Deo [?] Chamges
Mary White, 48 Rue de Madame
Alice Mitart, 59 Queen Anne Street
Ella Lawson, 6 Rue de la Sorbonne, Paris
Rose la Shedlock, 4 Rue des Earles
Edith Shove, London Schoo of Medicine for Women
Isabell Fogg, London School of Medicine for Women
Jane E. Waterston, London School of Medicine for Women
Fanny Jane Butler, London School of Medicine for Women
Isabella Bartholomew, London School of Medicine for Women
Annie de la Cherois, London School of Medicine for Women
Janet Monteath Douglas, London School of Medicine for Women
Jane G. Hammond, London School of Medicine for Women
Adela Bosanquet, London School of Medicine for Women
Jeanie E. McCall, London School of Medicine for Women
Constance V. F. Hitchcock, London School of Medicine for Women
F. Helen Prideaux, London School of Medicine for Women
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with the greatest satisfaction of the resolution of the
Senate to admit women to the medical examination
and degrees of the London University.
We have it now for the first time in
our power to say that a complete medical
school for women is established in London
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will prove to be, in all its bearings, as valuable