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    Dinner With the Devil: Women and Melbourne's Queen Vic: Their Pride and Shame, Joy and Sorrow
    Dinner With the Devil: Women and Melbourne's Queen Vic: Their Pride and Shame, Joy and Sorrow
    Dinner With the Devil: Women and Melbourne's Queen Vic: Their Pride and Shame, Joy and Sorrow
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    Dinner With the Devil: Women and Melbourne's Queen Vic: Their Pride and Shame, Joy and Sorrow

    By Helen Macrae

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    In 1896 a small group of Melbourne’s first women doctors opened a makeshift hospital in a borrowed church hall. They wanted to give ‘poor women the opportunity of being treated by their own sex, and in the presence of women only’. In the first few months they were overwhelmed by large numbers of outpatients.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 27, 2015
    ISBN9780994405517
    Dinner With the Devil: Women and Melbourne's Queen Vic: Their Pride and Shame, Joy and Sorrow

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