Dr. Elizabeth (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Patricia Clapp
- First Published: 1974
- Time of Work: 1845–1869
- Setting: Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New York
- Principal Characters: Elizabeth Blackwell, Emily Blackwell, Marie Zakrzewska
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Sexism, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Doctors, Medicine, Women’s rights, Biography
- Locales: New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina
Form and Content
Patricia Clapp wrote Dr. Elizabeth: The Story of the First Woman Doctor, about the first woman to receive the M.D. degree, using the first person and the journal form to give the impression that Elizabeth Blackwell herself is writing. Excerpts from letters to and by Blackwell and re-creations of conversations enhance this impression. In twenty chapters, Clapp encompasses the middle decades of the nineteenth century United States, the key years in Blackwell’s struggle to open the medical profession to women doctors. A brief epilogue recounts...
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