Emma constance stone biography

Australian physician and feminist (–)

Emma Constance Stone (4 December &#;&#; 29 December ) was the first woman to practice medicine in Australia.

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She played an important role in founding both the Queen Victoria Hospital, and the Victorian Medical Women's Society in Melbourne.

Early life and education

Stone was born on 4 December in Hobart, Tasmania to William and Betsy Stone. The family moved to Melbourne in ^[1] In , Stone met Reverend David Egryn Jones, who had emigrated from England.

Moved by the poverty his parish, Jones decided to study medicine, and Constance followed suit.^[2] She was forced to leave Australia to study medicine since the University of Melbourne would not admit women into the medicine course.^[3] She graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, and was awarded her MD from the University of Trinity College, Toronto in ^[4] Jones followed her to Canada to earn his MD.^[2] Stone, Constance (1856–1902) - Encyclopedia.com HEH