doctor, she retained a strong interest in medicine. In 1909 she met Octavia Wilberforce, a young woman whose fervent desire to study medicine was thwarted by a family that felt intellectualism and professional careers were 'unsexing' for women. When Wilberforce's father not only refused to pay for her studies, but disinherited her for pursuing them, Robins and other friends provided financial and moral support until she became a physician. While some have conjectured that Robins and Wilberforce were romantically involved, such insinuation has never been supported by the considerable scholarly material available about both women, nor is it born out in their own copious written material. All evidence points to Robins and Wilberforce enjoying a relationship much like that of mother and daughter. In her declining years she developed a friendship with Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Dr Wilberforce, the great-granddaughter of William Wilberforce, the British emancipator of slaves, looked after Robins until her death in 1952, just months shy of her 90th birthday. Works Anonymously, with Florence Bell, she wrote: Alan's Wife, 1893 As C. E. Raimond, she wrote: George Mandeville's Husband, 1894 The New Moon, 1895 Below the Salt, 1896 The Open Question, 1898 The success of this last novel led to her publishing under her own name: The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900 The Magnetic North, 1904 A Dark Lantern, 1905 (filmed in 1920) The Convert, 1907 Votes for Women! (A suffrage play produced at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London), 1907 Come and Find Me, 1908, a sequel to The Magnetic North My Little Sister, 1913 (filmed in 1919) Camilla, 1918 The Messenger, 1920 Ancilla's Share : an indictment of sex antagonism, 1924 The Florentine Frame, 1909 Raymond and I, 1956 See also History of feminism List of suffragists and suffragettes Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom Notes References Angela V. John, Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862–1952 Iveta Jusova, The New Woman and the Empire: Gender, Racial, and Colonial Issues in Sarah Grand, George Egerton, Elizabeth Robins, and Amy Levy. The Ohio State University Press, 2005. Joanne E. Gates, Elizabeth, Robins, 1862–1952, Actress, Novelist, Feminist The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900 Pat Jalland, ed., Octavia Wilberforce:The Autobiography of a Pioneer Woman Doctor The Papers of Elizabeth Robins at Fales Library, New York University Kelly, Katherine E., ed. Modern Drama by Women, 1880s-1930s: an International Anthology. New York: Routledge, 1996. Print. Park, Sowon, 'Elizabeth