Todd, Margaret G. (1859–1918)

views updated

Todd, Margaret G. (1859–1918)

Scottish physician and novelist. Name variations: (pseudonym) Graham Travers. Born Margaret Georgina Todd, 1859, in Glasgow, Scotland; died Sept 3, 1918, in London, England; dau. of James Cameron Todd; lived with Sophia Jex-Blake (physician).

Studied in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Berlin before entering Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women; graduated 1894 and became assistant to Sophia Jex-Blake with whom she lived from 1895; practiced medicine intermittently after 1895; wrote Mona Maclean, Medical Student (1982), Fellow Travellers (1896), Windyhaugh (1898), The Way of Escape (1902), Growth (1906), and The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake (1918).

More From encyclopedia.com