Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Hannah T. CHAMBERS
An New and Untried Course, p. 83, 84:
From 1880 (when the Quaker philanthropist Joseph Jeanes endowed a new chair for her) until 1902, Hannah T. Croasdale (1836-1912; WMC, 1870) served as professor of gynecology, yet little about her is known. Though a Quaker, she impressed students with the glories of her dress: a "trés grande dame," "a stylish figure in a fashionalbe gown of silk and velvet and lace." "When lecturing, she was absolutely uninspiring," but held the reputation as a fine surgeon with a delicate and sure "touch" who nonetheless also valued medical gynecology. To another student, Croasdale seemed the "ideal woman," probably denoting the synthesis of "womanly" attributes and surgical mastery, as remembered also in her predecessor, Emeline Horton Cleveland. Also like Cleveland, Croasdale had married, and she became the mother of four children. She entered medical school after her husband died. She was, with Clara Marshall, a member of the New Century Club, ans she supported suffrage.
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