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Children's Nonfiction Historical

Emily Stowe

by (author) Janet Ray

Publisher
Fitzhenry and Whiteside
Initial publish date
Mar 2002
Category
Historical, Women
Recommended Age
10 to 13
Recommended Grade
5 to 8
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550413694
    Publish Date
    Mar 2002
    List Price
    $8.95

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Description

Emily Stowe (1831-1903) was brought up to consider herself her brothers' equal. Her education was thorough and after graduating from teacher's college, she was invited to Brantford, Ontario, to be the first female school principal in Canada.

Stowe, however, was determined to become a doctor. While teaching school and caring for her family, she studied for the medical entrance exams. Unable to study in Ontario universities, she trained in New York. She was the first woman to open a practice in Canada, but it still took thirteen years to persuade the medical establishment to grant her a license.

Encouraged by the American suffrage movement, Stowe and others founded a Canadian suffrage group in 1876. They succeeded in their efforts to establish a women's medical college in 1883, but Stowe did not live to see full suffrage granted to women. Her daughter, Augusta Stowe-Gullen, the first woman to graduate in medicine from a Canadian university, continued her mother's campaign.

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Janet Ray is a Fitzhenry and Whiteside author.

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