Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England in 1821; Emily in 1826. Nine Blackwell children survived past infancy. The family emigrated to New York in 1832. The parents were ardent ...

Nimura, in her enthralling new book, “The Doctors Blackwell,” tells the story of two sisters who became feminist figures almost in spite of themselves. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman ...

On a dreary Monday morning in the fall of 1847, 26-year-old Elizabeth Blackwell showed up for class at Geneva Medical College in upstate New York, en route to becoming the first woman in America ...

Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell were the first and third women doctors in the United States. Illustration by Lila Thulin, images courtesy of Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard ...

By Joanna Scutts THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine By Janice P. Nimura In 1849, when Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman ...