Philadelphia: (Press of the Jas. B. Rogers Printing Co.), 1887.
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. Second edition (so stated on title page). With an Introduction by Rachel L. Bodley, Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Octavo. 119pp. Phototype frontispiece portrait of the author. Half cloth and paper-covered boards. Owner's contemporary inscription on front flyleaf ("Nellie M. Wilkie, Nov. 8, 1887, E.C.H."); crown has shallow chip, slight fraying at base of spine, moderate wear and few nicks to extremities of covers, else a very good copy, with text fresh and clean. The author, Pundita Ramabai Joshee, was born in Bombay in 1865. She was "the first high-caste Brahman woman to come to the United States.. Graduated in medicine, from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, March 11th, 1886, being the first Hindu woman to receive the Degree of Doctor of Medicine in any country... Died in Poona, India, February 26th, 1887."
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