Elizabeth Macfarlane Chesser (née Sloan) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Elizabeth Macfarlane Chesser (née Sloan) NPG x10746

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Howard Coster

Chesser received an MB and ChB from the Queen Margaret College in Glasgow, which had been established to provide higher education for women. Before the outbreak of the First World War, Chesser became a journalist, reporting on medical issues. She supported state sponsored welfare and believed in the importance of women’s access to education and in the responsibility of the individual for their own health and fitness. As part of the war effort, Chesser practiced as a physician at the Carshalton Maternity and Child Welfare... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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