Copy of the diary of Mrs. Isabel Jane Thorne (1834-1910), campaigner for medical education for women 1887
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Isabel Jane Pryer was born in London on 22 September 1834. She was the daughter of Isabel Charlton and Thomas Pryer. On the death of her father she became a governess, and then she met and became engaged to Joseph Thorne, a tea merchant. They were married prior to embarking for life in Shanghai, China, in the mid-1850s. By the mid-1860s the family was back in England again and in the midst of economic crisis Isabel began classes in Midwifery at the Ladies Medical College, in Fitzroy...
