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More Than Gold in California : The Life and Work of Dr. Mary Bennett Ritter by Gesa E. Kirsch (2017, Trade Paperback)
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More than Gold in California by Gesa Kirsch. Title More than Gold in California. Author Biography. Publisher Globe Pequot Press. Gesa Kirsch is a Professor of English at Bentley University. Author Gesa Kirsch.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGlobe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-101493026518
ISBN-139781493026517
eBay Product ID (ePID)227662954
Product Key Features
Number of Pages356 Pages
Publication NameMore than Gold in California : the Life and Work of Dr. Mary Bennett Ritter
LanguageEnglish
SubjectUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Physicians, Personal Memoirs, General, Medical
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, Medical, History
AuthorGesa E. Kirsch
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight17.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-018898
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal610.92 B
SynopsisMary Bennett Ritter was a farmer's daughter who in the 1880s defied all conventions to pursue her passion: to receive medical training and become a physician. Ritter's memoir is a riveting account of her accomplishments and a revealing peek into an earlier era through her keen sense of observation, humor, savvy, and her courage to challenge gender norms. It is filled with adventures- house calls via horse and buggy rides through the dark streets of Berkeley; a spurned lover's suicide; a near drowning at Pacific Grove Beach; one of the first automobile rides across rugged California dirt roads; intercontinental rail travel; and voyages to the Far East. As the story unfolds, readers encounter the movers and shakers of their times-University of California presidents and families of wealth and influence, including the Scrippses, and the Hearsts, and the Rockefellers., Mary Bennett Ritter was a farmer's daughter who in the 1880s defied all conventions to pursue her passion: to receive medical training and become a physician. Ritter's memoir is a riveting account of her accomplishments and a revealing peek into an earlier era through her keen sense of observation, humor, savvy, and her courage to challenge ......
LC Classification NumberR154.R443
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