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The Edinburgh Seven were the first group of matriculated undergraduate female students at any British university. They began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869 and although they were unsuccessful in their struggle to graduate and qualify as doctors, the campaign they fought gained national attention and won them many supporters, including Charles Darwin. Their campaign put the rights of women to a university education on the national political agenda, which eventually resulted in legislation to ensure that women could study at university in 1877. The group is also referred to as Septem contra Edinam ("Seven against Edinburgh") and although over the four-year campaign some of the original seven left and others joined, the Edinburgh Seven are considered to be as follows: * Sophia Jex-Blake * Isabel Thorne * Edith Pechey * Matilda Chaplin * Helen Evans * Mary Anderson * Emily Bovell These were the seven women listed in the petition made to the Royal Infirmary on Nov 15th 1870 requesting admission to clinical teaching. These women were all registered in the GMC Medical Students Register between 1869 and 1870 as ''bona fide'' medical students and required clinical instruction at the Infirmary in order to fulfil the requirements of a medical degree. == The start of the Edinburgh campaign == Sophia Jex-Blake applied to study medicine in March 1869 and although the Medical Faculty and the Senatus Academus voted in favour of allowing her to study medicine, the University Court rejected her application on the grounds that the university could not make the necessary arrangements 'in the interest of one lady' Jex-Blake then advertised in ''The Scotsman'' and other national newspapers for more women to join her. The first two women to write to her were Isabel Thorne and Edith Pechey. Edith Pechey’s letter read: This modest letter did not do justice to her intellectual ability – see Hope Scholarship below. A second application was submitted in the summer of 1869 on behalf of the group of five women initially (two more joined later in the year to make the Edinburgh Seven). It requested matriculation and all that that implied – the right to attend all the classes and examinations required for a degree in medicine. This application was approved by the University Court. The women set up home in 15 Buccleuch Place, now home to the University of Edinburgh’s Student Experience Office, and began preparing for the matriculation exam. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edinburgh Seven」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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