“Janice Nimura has gifted us with more than a splendid history of the Blackwell sisters. The Blackwell’s live and triumph again.” - Dr. Their incredible story has been crying out to be told, and in Janice Nimura they have the ideal biographer.
They are heroines, not just of their time, but for every age. “The Blackwell sisters took on the medical establishment and won. Deftly, with a keen eye, she has resurrected Blackwell and her physician sister Emily in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor.” - Stacy Schiff, author of The Witches “’I wish some skillful pen would produce an interesting old maid’s life,’ sighed 17-year-old Elizabeth Blackwell in 1838, at a time when that idea was as much a contradiction in terms as "female physician." Janice Nimura has splendidly granted the adolescent wish. Nimura is the winner of a 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar award and the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, a New York Times Notable Book. As Elizabeth predicted, “a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now.” This major new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility. They prevailed against fierce resistance from the male establishment, moving among Britain, France, and America during a tumultuous time of scientific discovery and civil war. Together they founded the first hospital staffed entirely by women, in New York City.īoth sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights-or with each other. Her achievement made her an icon-“I am convinced that a new & nobler era is dawning, for Medicine,” she wrote-but her sister Emily, eternally eclipsed, was the more brilliant physician.
The world recoiled at the notion of a woman doctor, yet Elizabeth Blackwell persisted-in 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an MD.
Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor.”-Stacy Schiff
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