Letters to Ann Preston, M.D. and others, 1870.

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Letters to Ann Preston, M.D. and others, 1870.

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Letters from Jeanette Preston, Alice Way and T.B. Williams. The letter from Preston is to Emily Cleveland, M.D. telling her of her strong desire to become a doctor, but that for a long time her mother felt it was outside of a woman's mission in life. Other letters request information about the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. There is also one envelope without letter for Preston.

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Haverford College Library

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Haverford College Library

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Way, Alice, 1833-1881.

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Preston, Ann, 1813-1872

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Ann Preston (1813-1872) was a pioneer in women’s medical education. She graduated from the first class of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1851, served on the faculty, founded the Woman’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a nursing school, and became the first woman dean of the Female Medical College in 1866. However, in addition to her contributions in medicine, Dr. Preston was also, “both moral and political reformer, visionary, fund-raiser, and institution builder,” (Peit...

Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

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Cleveland, Emily.

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Preston, Jeannette.

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