author of THE BIRTH HOUSE & THE WITCHES OF NEW YORK. Novelist, playwright, musician. Keeper of stories, spells, bees and dreams. Weirder than you think.
Mar 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
A thread for #InternationalWomensDay
My g-g grandmother (and a character in my novel “The Virgin Cure,”) Dr. Sarah Fonda-Mackintosh (1836-1903) was an early graduate of the Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children. 1/4 #WomenInMedicine
The Women’s Medical College of the NY Infirmary (shown here in a Frank Leslie’s illustration from 1870) was founded in NYC in 1868 by sister-Drs Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell. 2/4 #histmed#InternationalWomensDay#WomenInMedicine