How the Other Half Lives · Character
A Woman Doctor
A female physician working among the poor in the tenements.
minor
Also known as herself, a woman doctor
First appearance: XX: The Working Girls of New York
A Woman Doctor shows up with force in XX: The Working Girls of New York. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Brought to the narrator's attention the case of a widow making paper bags in an East Side attic for 25–30 cents a day.
A Woman Doctor first appears in 0024 xx the working girls of new york.
In XX: The Working Girls of New York: Brought to the narrator's attention the case of a widow making paper bags in an East Side attic for 25–30 cents a day.
Later, in XXII: The Wrecks and the Waste: A woman doctor is mentioned as the source of the quote about the curse of the island and the impossibility of rehabilitation for those who have been institutionalized.
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Authority Figures and Ethnic Types
- Tenement Inhabitants and Reformers
- Protagonist
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See A Woman Doctor in XX: The Working Girls of New York