Found 1,768 results for "Women physicians, fiction"
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...
Middlemarch
by George Eliot, Jessica Hische
MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house...
Washington Square
by Henry James
DURING A portion of the first half of the present century, and more particularly during the latter part of it, there flo...
Wives and daughters
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Gaskell, Mrs., Ward, A. W.
To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood.
MAIN STREET
by Sinclair Lewis
ON a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower b...
Cause of Death
by Patricia Cornwell
ON THE LAST MORNING OF VIRGINIA'S BLOODIEST YEAR since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness...
Chinese Cinderella
by Adeline Yen Mah
As soon as I got home from school, Aunt Baba noticed the silver medal dangling from the left breast pocket of my uniform...
Kisscut
by Karin Slaughter
"DANCING QUEEN," Sara Linton mumbled with the music as she made her way around the skating rink.
Blindsighted
by Karin Slaughter
Sara Linton leaned back in her chair, mumbling a soft "Yes, Mama" into the telephone.
Inversions
by Iain Banks
Master, it was in the evening of the third day of the southern planting season that the questioner's assistant came for ...
