Victorian Female Doctor

[cathrinerose]

I'm writing an AU Sherlock Holmes fanfic featuring a genderbent!always-female!Watson. I know according to the Sherlock Holmes wiki that Dr. John Watson graduated from the University of London in 1878. I also know that the London School of Medicine for Women was founded in 1874

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[chipuni]

You can find the list of students at University of London Student Records. Good luck!

[sollersuk]

Conan Doyle actually wrote a story about a woman doctor. Have a look for his short stories.

[gehayi]

It's called The Doctors of Hoyland, and the woman doctor, Verrinder Smith, is described this way:

By it he learned that Dr. Verrinder Smith was the holder of superb degrees, that he had studied with distinction at Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, and finally that he had been awarded a gold medal and the Lee Hopkins scholarship for original research, in recognition of an exhaustive inquiry into the functions of the anterior spinal nerve roots.

[sollersuk]

I'm very fond of the story. The POV character finally comes to the conclusion that she is an OK doctor and person and (rather patronisingly) proposes marriage to her. Her "thanks, but no thanks" is an excellent put-down.

[gehayi]

I love that she says no and means it. And that she doesn't fall for him at the last second.