A physician, a Northerner, a teacher, a school administrator, a suffragist, and an abolitionist, Esther Hill Hawks was the antithesis of Southern womanhood. And

“I will always be somebody.” This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only American w

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An invaluable reference work chronicling the lives of over 200 women who received medical degrees in the United States before the Civil War.

Autobiography of a woman who masqueraded as a man.