Jane Elizabeth Waterston — Southern Africa's First Woman Doctor

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Ibid: 22.

Ibid. 47.

Ibid: 77.

Ibid: 105.

Cape Times, 8 November 1932.

See, for instance, Stewart's comments and Waterston's later lecture, “The Higher Education of Women”, in Bean L, Van-Heyningen EB (op. cat ref 7): 32, 279–87.

Ibid: 109.

Ibid: 79.

Hanna AJ . The Beginnings of Nyasaland and North-Eastern Rhodesia 1859–1895. Oxford: Clarendon, 1956: 23–34. Ross AC. Livingstone and the aftermath: the origins and development of the Blantyre mission. In: Pachai B , ed. Livingstone: Man of Africa; Memorial Essays 1873–1973. London: Longman, 1973: 55.

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Ibid: 221. Cape Times, 14 September 1889. This was a complimentary recognition of her existing qualification.

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See, for instance, her comments on colonial troops in 1885 or on Samoa in 1889. Bean L, Van Heyningen EB (op. cit. ref 7) 195, 217.

The details of this relationship are to be found partly in the Garrett Papers, British Library, Department of Manuscripts: Add Mss 45929, and published in Shaw G , ed. The Garrett Papers. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1984.

Ibid: 54. The “rag” was the South African Telegraph, a paper funded by the Rand magnate, JB Robinson.

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