WMHS TALKS ARCHIVE

Newtown Salvation Army Worship and Community Centre

Women Doctors on the Nineteenth Century Stage: Education and Entertainment

Women Doctors on the Nineteenth Century Stage: Education and Entertainment

Date: Wednesday 4th June, 2025

Presented by: Barbara Brookes

Location: Newtown Salvation Army Worship and Community Centre, 4 Normanby Street, Newtown

A talk on the creation of a new kind of women-only theatre that she (Longshore-Potts) and some other 19thC women doctors embarked on and why they did so.