Biography & Autobiography Historical
The Reminiscences of Doctor John Sebastian Helmcken
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 1975
- Category
- Historical, Pre-Confederation (to 1867), Personal Memoirs, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774841610
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774800389
- Publish Date
- Dec 1975
- List Price
- $41.95
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Description
Born and brought up in Whitechapel, John Sebastian Helmcken worked his way through apprenticeships as a chemist and a medical pupil before gaining admission to Guy's Hospital to complete his training. The accounts he gives of working class family life and of the great economic and social disadvantages he had to confront in order to become a doctor make this volume of memoirs not only a valuable historical document, but also an autobiography with considerable human interest.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Dorothy Blakey Smith, formerly an Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia and more recently on the staff of the Provincial Archives, is the editor of "The Journal of Arthur Thomas Bushby, 1858-1859," James Douglas in California, 1841, and Lady Franklin Visits the Pacific Northwest. She has also written a short biography of James Douglas for the Canadian Lives series and has contributed numerous articles to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.