Author: Travers, Graham (ps. van Margaret Todd).
Title: Mona Maclean : medisch studente.
Description: [Vertaling uit het Engels] door C.M. Borneman. Utrecht : W. de Haan, [ca. 1925]. 2 Delen in 1 Band. Deel 1 : 2e druk; Deel 2 : 3e druk. Orig. cloth binding. 178,[1]; 179,[1] pp. Some occas. foxing. Rare copy of the 2nd/3rd Dutch edition in fine Jugendstil binding. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Margaret Todd (1859-1918), a Scottish writer and medical doctor, who became in 1886 one of the first students at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women after hearing that the Scottish Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons had opened their exams to women. She took eight years to complete the four-year course because, using the pseudonym Graham Travers, during her studies she wrote a novel, Mona Maclean, Medical Student, first published in 1894. This was described by Punch magazine as a novel with a purpose, no recommendation for a novel, more especially when the purpose selected is that of demonstrating the indispensability of women-doctors. After graduating in 1894 she took her MD in Brussels and was appointed Assistant Medical Officer at Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children but retired after five years. The novel has been exceptionally well received and into further editions and translations.

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