Lady Doctors from London Bridge to Westminster

from London Bridge to Westminster

The First Collection is an ambitious accomplishment

powered by a likeable Nigerian-British heroine

Fola deserves a break

Lady Doctors from London Bridge to WestminsterAt a time when medicine is a highly sought after career for Indian women, it is hard to imagine what it was like for the pioneers. The story of how firmly they were bound in fetters of family, caste and society, and how fiercely they fought to escape, needs to be told. In Lady Doctors, Kavitha Rao unearths the extraordinary stories of six women from the 1860s to the 1930s, who defied the idea that they were unfit for medicine by virtue of their