Miller, Florence Fenwick (1854–1935)

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Miller, Florence Fenwick (1854–1935)

British journalist and lecturer. Name variations: (pseudonym) Philomena. Born Florence Fenwick Miller, Nov 5, 1854, in London, England; died April 24, 1935, in Hove, Sussex, England; dau. of Captain John Miller and Eleanor (Fenwick) Miller; m. Frederick Alfred Ford.

Entered Ladies' Medical College, London, and practiced obstetrics after graduating top student; became well known in England and US as platform speaker on women's issues; wrote "Ladies' Notes" for Illustrated London News for 33 years; edited periodicals Outward Bound, Homeward Bound and Signal; wrote House of Life (1878), An Atlas of Anatomy (1879), Lynton Abbott's Children (1879), Animated Physiology for Elementary Schools (1882), Readings in Social Economy (1883), Harriet Martineau (1884), Hughes's Natural History Readers (1884) and In Ladies' Company (1892).

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