I'm seeking information about the family of Frances DICK

born between 1866 and 1870

Dr Frances Dick graduated from London School of Medicine for Women and the University of Ireland. She was not a graduate of Sydney University as written in pencil on the back of this photograph.

Her qualifications included: LSA (London) 1891 and MB Ba Surg, Royal University of Ireland

Appears on the 1891 Census of England and Wales, as boarding with James Main and family at Marlybone, London

1892. She was the first woman to practise medicine in New South Wales preceding Dr M A Corliss by a few months. She was registered on 13 January, 1892.

1893. Practiced as a surgeon at 195 Elizabeth St. Sydney

Left from Sydney for Germany on the 'Gulf of Genoa' on the 18 December 1899

[Dame Mary Gilmore described her: "when everyone else was dressed in floral or other soft materials, Dr Dick wore tailormade tweeds as like a mans, without aping man, as possible.' It is thought she later went to Germany to become a specialist where she died." ]

According to the Loxtons Medical Directory of Australia in 1900 Dr Dick is not listed

The reference attached to the photograph below which was taken in 1892 by J Hubert Newman at 12 Oxford St, Sydney held by the State Library of NSW

REFERENCE:
Hutton Neve, M. This mad folly : the history of Australia's pioneer women doctors, Library of Australian History, Sydney 1980 p. 145
Contents
Dr Dick wears a bachelor's cap and gown with no hood


Contributing Creator
Photographer's stamp lower edge of mount
Signatures / Inscriptions
"Dr. Dick, / First Lady Doctor / Syd. Univ.?" -- in pencil on the reverse
General Note
Transferred from P1/Dick, Dr. (BM), January 2010

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