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Stone, Emma Constance (1856-1902)

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Jones, Emma Constance
Occupation
general practitioner
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-769053

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

STONE, EMMA CONSTANCE (1856-1902) and GRACE CLARA (1860-1957), medical practitioners, were born on 4 December 1856 and on 12 January 1860 in Hobart Town, daughters of William Stone, builder, and his wife Betsy, née Haydon. William Stone was their brother. The family moved to Melbourne in 1872. Both girls were educated chiefly at home by their mother, a former governess.

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Australian Women's Register

In February 1890, Dr Constance Stone became the first woman to be registered with the Medical Board of Victoria, paving the way for medical women in Melbourne, Australia, Working mainly with women and children in free clinics, she gave low-income women the opportunity to be treated in private, free from the embarrassment of examination in front of male medical students. She founded the Victorian Medical Women’s Society and was a member of a number of women’s organisations, including the Victorian Women’s Franchise League. Her major achievement was the foundation of the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital.

Constance Stone was not permitted to enrol in the Melbourne Medical School because in the early 1880s, women were excluded from medical studies because the subject matter was deemed inappropriate for co-ed classes. Consequently, in 1884 she travelled to North America , where she was educated at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, USA and the University of Trinity College, Toronto, Canada (MD, ChM 1888) thus ensuring that she could be registered in Australia. She also studied at the New Hospital for Women, London, qualifiying as a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1889. The first woman to register with the Medical Board of Victoria 1890, she practised one day a week at the free dispensary attached to Dr Singleton's mission in Collingwood. She founded the Queen Victoria Hospital, where she was assisted by her sister Dr Clara Stone (one of the first women to enter the Melbourne Medical School) and her cousin, Dr Emily Mary Page Stone. She was Foundation member (1895) of the Victorian Medical Women's Society.

Stone was one of the few early female medical practitioners to marry and have children. Her daughter, Bronwen, also became a doctor.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

  1. 'Stone, Emma Constance (1856 - 1902)' - Australian Dictionary of Biography
    Penny Russell
    [1990]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
    Series: Volume 12
    pp 98-100.

Australian Women's Register

  1. The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia
    De Vries, Susanna
    [2003]
    Published: HarperCollins, Sydney
  2. Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
    Australian National University
    [2006]
  3. Nation builders : great lives and stories from St Kilda General Cemetery
    Eidelson, Meyer
    [2001]
    Published: Friends of St Kilda Cemetery Inc., St Kilda, Vic.
  4. This mad folly: the history of Australia's pioneer women doctors
    Hutton Neve, M. ( Marjorie)
    [1980]
    Published: Library of Australian History, Sydney
  5. Where are the Women in Australian science?
    Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
  6. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press, Sydney
  7. Stone, Emma Constance (1856-1912)
    Russell, Penny
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
  8. Letter : to Miss Evans.
    [manuscript : 16 Sept 1926]
    Letter to Miss Evans from Dr. Egryn Jones discussing the role of his wife, Dr. Constance Stone, as one of the founders of the Queen Victoria Hospital.
    0.1 m, 2 pages
    State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
    MS Held

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  1. Stone, William (1858-1949)
    electrical engineer; microscopist; public servant
    ... . Emma Constance and Grace Clara were his sisters. He came to Victoria as a boy and in ... Stone, Emma Constance (1856 - 1902) ...
  2. Stone, Grace Clara (1860-1957)
    general practitioner
    ... STONE, EMMA CONSTANCE (1856-1902) and GRACE CLARA (1860-1957), medical ... Stone, William (1858 - 1949) ...
  3. Stone, Emily Mary Page (1865-1910)
    ... STONE, EMMA CONSTANCE (1856-1902) and GRACE CLARA (1860-1957), medical ... Stone, William (1858 - 1949) ...
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