Lectures to Women.

£3,750 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

doctor suffragette The rare first edition of the first book by the early woman doctor and suffragette Alice Ker (1853-1943), a short medical guide to caring for girls and young women through puberty, based on a series of lectures delivered at Manchester. The women of Ker's extended family in Edinburgh were heavily involved in progressive social and political causes, 'their home forming an unofficial centre for the early women's suffrage movement' (ODNB), and she was encouraged to take up a profession. Ker became acquainted with Sophia Jex-Blake during her legal fight to be allowed to graduate as a doctor from Edinburgh University, and when that failed Ker studied at the London School of Medicine and took her examinations at the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. After additional studies in the US and Switzerland she 'was accepted onto the medical register in 1879, only the thirteenth woman to be so recognized' (ODNB). 'Details of Alice's early medical career are sparse, but it is known that she spent some time at the Children's Hospital in Birmingham where she was promoted to senior medical officer in 1881. She also published a book, Lectures to Women nos. 1–3 (1883), which gave pragmatic advice on a number of medical questions' (ODNB). Ker built a successful general practice in Birkenhead, Liverpool while also raising a family and involving herself in social causes. 'Since her student days she had been a supporter of the idea of women's suffrage, and was a me

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