Medicine and Public Health in Victorian Literature and the Arts (original) (raw)

Literature

• Dr. John, alias Graham Bretton, in Brontë Villette
• Poetry and Medicine: W. E. Henley's In Hospital
• Brontë and Nineteenth-Century Views of Blindness and Deafness
• Lydgate in George Eliot's Middlemarch
• Allan Woodcourt in Charles Dickens's Bleak House
• The protagonist of George MacDonald's Robert Falconer
• Dr. Thorne in Antony Trollope's novel of the same name
• Review of Hosanna Krienke's Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Afterlife of Victorian Illness

Painting and Illustration

• Sir Samuel Luke Fildes's The Doctor
• Sir Samuel Luke Fildes's Applicants to a Casual Ward
• William Small's The Good Samaritan

Sculpture

• Edward Jenner (smallpoox vaccination)
• Dr. Jenner Innoculating His Son by Professore Moneteverde
• Joseph Lord Lister (antisepsis)
• A. G. Walker, Florence Nightingale in hospital, advising
• A. G. Walker, Florence Nightingale at hospital door as wounded soldiers arrive
• A. G. Walker, Florence Nightingale in old age surrounded by her nurses

Architecture — The Hospital

• Hospitals site-map
• Henry Curry's St. Thomas's Hospital
• Elizabeth Garret Anderson Hospital
• The Metropolitan Convalescent Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey

Last modified 26 December 2020