More than Gold in California

The Life and Work of Dr. Mary Bennett Ritter

Buch | Softcover

356 Seiten

2017
TwoDot Books (Verlag)
978-1-4930-2651-7 (ISBN)

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Mary Bennett Ritter was a farmer’s daughter who in the 1880s defied all conventions to pursue her passion: to receive medical training and become a physician. Ritter’s memoir is a riveting account of her accomplishments and a revealing peek into an earlier era through her keen sense of observation, humor, savvy, and her courage to challenge gender norms. It is filled with adventures— house calls via horse and buggy rides through the dark streets of Berkeley; a spurned lover’s suicide; a near drowning at Pacific Grove Beach; one of the first automobile rides across rugged California dirt roads; intercontinental rail travel; and voyages to the Far East. As the story unfolds, readers encounter the movers and shakers of their times—University of California presidents and families of wealth and influence, including the Scrippses, and the Hearsts, and the Rockefellers.

Gesa Kirsch is a Professor of English at Bentley University. Her work in women’s studies and rhetorical studies is extensive; she has authored and co-authored three books and edited five others.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2017
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 228 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4930-2651-8 / 1493026518
ISBN-13	978-1-4930-2651-7 / 9781493026517
Zustand	Neuware