At a modest hotel in Homburg, Harrington Vizard, a Yorkshire squire who professes to hate women, is drawn into the affairs of the singer Ina Klosking, his sister Zoe and her clever friend Fanny. Among them is Rhoda Gale, who has studied medicine against every obstacle the profession can put in a woman’s way and means to use it.
A lively campaigning novel of 1877 that took up the cause of women in medicine. Download the free EPUB.