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Overall, why is Emily Stowe

an important figure?

  • She was Canada's FIRST female doctor!
  • She was a suffragette and she supported and fought for women's rights!

This is how it started.......

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References

Feldberg, G. (1994). JENNINGS< EMILY HOWARD. EN:UNDEF:public_citation_publication, vol. 13. Retrieved from http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jennings_emily_howard_13E.html

(2006). Dr. Emily Howard Stowe. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved from http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/physicians/030002-2500-e.html

Backhouse, C. (1991). The Celebrated Abortion Trial of Dr. Emily Stowe, Toronto, 1879. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol 8. Retrieved from http://www.cbmh.ca/index.php/cbmh/article/view/232

Fryer, M. (1990). CANADIAN MEDICAL LIVES. Associated Medical Services. Retrieved from http://php.ams-inc.on.ca/?q=publications/canadian_medical_lives/emily_howard_stowe

  • Entered in the Normal School of Upper Canada

(Feldberg, 1994)

  • Graduated with first-class honours
  • Struggled with gender inequality when she was denied acceptance to Victoria College because she was a women
  • November 22 - Married John Stowe
  • Became a principle for a Brantford public school
  • Worked there until she got married

1852

1854

1853

1855

1865

Dr. Emily Howard Stowe

  • Moved to Pleasantville
  • Had 2 sons and a daughter

(Library and Archives Canada, 2006)

  • Husband got tuberculosis
  • She went back to teaching but she had a hard time supporting the family financially
  • Applied to the Toronto School of Medicine because she was motivated by her husbands illness to study herbal healing and homeopathic medicine
  • Denied acceptance because she was a woman
  • Her reply: "Then I will make it the business of my life to see that they will be opened, that women will have the same opportunities as men."
  • At 15, she began teaching at a school, and continued to for 7 years

(Feldberg, 1994)

  • Attended the International Conference of Suffragettes in Washington, DC.

1846

(Feldberg, 1994)

  • Her daughter, Ann Augusta Stowe, became the first female doctor to graduate from a Canadian Medical School

(Feldberg, 1994)

(Library and Archives Canada, 2006)

  • Emily Howard Stowe died

(Feldberg, 1994)

1867

  • Moved to United States to attend New York Medical College for Woman
  • Got her degree in 1867
  • First President of Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association
  • Oldest of 6 sisters
  • Solomon Jennings - father, Methodist
  • Hannah Howard - mother, Quaker
  • Fell off a platform at Chicago women's international convention
  • Broke her hip
  • Was forced to stop practising medicine

1893

(Feldberg, 1994)

1831

(Feldberg, 1994)

(Library and Archives Canada, 2006)

  • Charged with performing abortion on one of her patients
  • Mother didn't want the child and Emily prescribed her medicine to induce a miscarriage
  • Hoever, the medicine didnt kill the baby; the mother consumed poison
  • John Stowe, her husband died

(Backhouse, 1991)

  • Born May 1st
  • Norwich Township, Ontario
  • Religion - Quaker

1879

(Library and Archives Canada, 2006))

(Feldberg, 1994)

1871

  • Admitted to University of Toronto
  • Went there to get her professional license, but she never did

(Feldberg, 1994)

  • Helped found Toronto Women's Literary Guild

(Feldberg, 1994)

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