Elsie Inglis - The Woman With the Torch
Author: first_name: Eva Shaw
last_name: McLaren
Language: English
Year: 1920

This is a brief biography of the  Scottish physician and suffragist Dr. Elsie Inglis.  Dr. Inglis founded a maternity hospital  for the poor in Edinburgh (then known as the Hospice, but later as the Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital), and was known for her charity and willingness to waive fees when patients could not afford her care. She was also a key figure in Scotland's Women's Suffrage Movement.  She is best known, however,  for founding the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service, which