title: Medical Women and Victorian Fiction
author:  Kristine Swenson 
description: <DIV><P>&quot;Swenson's elaborate and carefully constructed links among her topics make this an informative and compelling study. Medical Women and Victorian Fiction is an original contribution to our knowledge of the period. A highly original and exceptionally well researched work.&quot;--<B>Linda M. Lewis</B></P></DIV><br /><br /><DIV><P>&quot;This book will contribute to the ongoing work on Victorian feminism, New Women writers, and approaches to gender and British imperialism. The research is solid, and readings of the novels are consistently interesting and provocatively linked.&quot;--<B>Annette Federico</B></P></DIV>
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  Lady Jane's Physician
  
  by Anne Ashley
  
  "Don't be ridiculous, girl!
  
  He slapped her restraining hand away none too gently.
  
  "I'm a physician, and quite accustomed to seeing bared limbs every day of the
  week."
  
  "Be that as it may, Dr. Carrington, but I really think my maid or Elizabeth
  ought to be present while you carry out your examination," Jane argued.
  
  "Let me assure you that your virtue is quite safe," he responded, secretly
  amused by this display of modesty.
  
  "I'm not in the habit of ravishing innocent young damsels at least, not in the
  forenoon, or when I'm carrying out my duties as a practitioner, that is."
  
  By the flashing look of annoyance she cast him, it was evident that she was
  unaccustomed to being teased.
  
  Anne Ashley was born and educated in Leicester. She lived for a time in
  Scotland but now lives in the West Country with two cats, her two sons and a
  husband who has a wonderful and very necessary sense of humour. When not
  pounding away at the keys of h