Category: Biographies
Childhood in India--Friendship with her father--Schooldays in Edinburgh--Death of her mother--Study of Medicine--Death of her father--Practice started in Edinburgh in 1894--Twenty years of professional life: interests, friendships--Varied Descriptions of Dr. Inglis by Miss S....
Childhood in India--Friendship with her father--Schooldays in Edinburgh--Death of her mother--Study of Medicine--Death of her father--Practice started in Edinburgh in 1894--Twen...
4. Chapter 45. Chapter 5The problems of the unmarried woman--Dr. Inglis's unpublished novel, _The Story of a Modern Woman_--Quotations from the novel--Many parts of novel evidently autobiographical--He...
6. Chapter 67. Chapter 78. Chapter 8Justice of claim appealed to Dr. Inglis--Worked from constitutional point of view--Founding of Scottish Federation of Suffrage Societies--Dr. Inglis's activities for the cause--...
9. Chapter 910. Chapter 10Dreadful condition of country--Arrival of Dr. Soltau and Dr. Hutchison and Unit--Dr. Inglis's arrival in May, 1915--Fountain at Mladanovatz--Letter from officer who designed fou...
11. Chapter 11Dr. Inglis's start for Russia in August, 1916--Unit attached to Serb Division near Odessa--Three weeks' work at Medjidia--Retreat to Braila--Order of three retreats--Work at Ren...
12. Chapter 12Serb Division in unenviable position--Dr. Inglis's determination to save them from wholesale slaughter--Hard work through summer months to achieve their safety--Efforts crowned...
13. Chapter 1314. Chapter 14"During the whole years of the Suffrage struggle, while the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies was growing and developing, Dr. Elsie Inglis stood as a tower of strengt...
15. Chapter 15In the centre stands Elsie Inglis, the "woman of gentle breeding, short of stature, alert, and with the eyes of a seer," and "a smile like sunshine"; and on either side and behi...
16. Chapter 16Elsie Inglis was born on August 16, 1864, in India. The wide plains of India, the "huddled hills" and valleys of the Himalayas, were the environment with which Nature surrounded...
17. Chapter 17During the years from 1894 to 1914 the main stream in Elsie Inglis's life was her medical work. This was her profession, her means of livelihood; it was also the source from whi...
18. Chapter 18It may be truly said that special types of problems come before the unmarried woman for solution--problems as to her connection with society and with the race, which confront he...
19. Chapter 19"Wonderful courage," "intrepidity of action," "strength of purpose," "no weakening pity"--these are terms that are often used in describing Elsie Inglis. But there is another si...
20. Chapter 20During her medical career Dr. Inglis never lost sight of one aim, equal opportunity for the woman with the man in all branches of education and practical training and responsibi...
21. Chapter 21The question of Woman's Suffrage had always interested Dr. Inglis, for the justice of the claim had from the first appealed to her. But it was not until after 1900 that the Wome...
22. Chapter 22It is interesting to note that Dr. Inglis completed her fiftieth year in the August that war broke out. She started on her great work of the next years with all the vigour and f...
23. Chapter 23Serbia in January, 1915, was in a pitiable condition. Three wars following in quick succession had devastated the land. The Austrians, after their defeat at the Battle of the Ri...
24. Chapter 24"The division consisted mainly of Serbo-Croats and Slovenes--namely, Serbs who, as subjects of Austria-Hungary, were obliged to serve in the Austrian Army. Nearly all of these m...
25. Chapter 25Through the summer months of 1917 Dr. Inglis had been working to get the Serbian division to which her Unit was attached out of Russia. They were in an unenviable position. The...
26. Chapter 26She had been dying by inches for months. She had fought Death in Russia; she had fought him through all the long voyage. It was a strange warfare. For he was not to be stayed. I...