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Here's a refreshing introduction to a regularly but often dryly cited female "first." The girl "who tried sleeping on the hard floor with no covers, just to toughen herself up" becomes the young woman who proved she was as smart as any of the male students at Geneva Medical School, and, eventually, the woman doctor who opened the first hospital for women, run by women, because no one else would hire her. Elizabeth Blackwell's early life is outlined in trim conversational prose...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Doctor Elizabeth Blackwell's early life is outlined in trim conversational prose in this lively picture-book treatment. A choice handful of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More