Augusta Stowe-Gullen
Ann Augusta Stowe-Gullen (born Stowe , born July 27, 1857 in Mount Pleasant , Ontario , Canada , † September 25, 1943 in Toronto , Canada) was a Canadian doctor , suffragette and theosophist . She was the first woman in Canada to earn a degree in medicine.
life and work
Stowe-Gullen was born on July 27, 1857 in Mount Pleasant, one of three children of John and Emily Stowe . In 1883 she married the doctor John Benjamin Gullen .
She was a member of the Theosophical Society and on February 16, 1891, together with her mother Emily Stowe, Algernon Blackwood and Albert Smythe in Toronto, she co-founded the first theosophical lodge in Canada.
She began studying medicine at the University of Toronto's Toronto School of Medicine in 1879 and became the first woman to earn a medical doctorate degree in Canada in 1883. She then taught anatomy at the newly founded Woman's Medical College in Toronto, where she taught teething problems from 1890. In 1909 she co-founded the Women's College Hospital in Toronto. In addition, she campaigned for women's rights .
literature
- Janet Ray: Emily Stowe . Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Don Mills 1978, ISBN 0-88902-236-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Theosophy ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved March 22, 2015.
- ↑ Ann Augusta Stowe-Gullen ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved March 22, 2015.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stowe-Gullen, Augusta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stowe-Gullen, Ann Augusta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian doctor, suffragette and theosophist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Pleasant, Ontario , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1943 |
| Place of death | Toronto , Canada |