Women's Hospitals in Brighton and Hove

Women's Hospitals in Brighton and Hove

Ref: HPL-BK02

Supplied by Hastings Press.

The Story of:
The Lady Chichester Hospital
The New Sussex Hospital

In 1898 two young women doctors arrived in Hove and nervously set up in general practice. Twenty eventful years later Brighton & Hove had two Women's hospitals.

This book is a unique blend of social and local history set against a vivid backdrop of Edwardian Brighton, World War I, and the struggle for women to forge a place in public life.

By Val Brown.

208pp plus 16 pages plates.
Published October 2006
ISBN 978-1-904109-09-9

£7.50