Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Octavia Margaret Sophia Lewin NPG x15460

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Olive Edis

The war was one of the first opportunities for female doctors to gain a wider acceptance and to demonstrate that they could work in the medical profession at a higher level than nursing. Octavia Lewin was part of a small number of pioneering women who qualified as the first female doctors in Britain. After studying at the London Free Hospital for Women, she specialised in diseases of the ears, throat and nose and worked in various London hospitals. During the war she served as assistant... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.