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Advertisement for Springwood Ladies' College 21 November 1899

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[Science of man and journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia, 21 November 1899, p 24 (via Trove)]

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Berne, Dagmar

Dagmar Berne was the first female student of medicine at Sydney University and a pioneering doctor. Confronted by prejudice, she was obliged to travel overseas to qualify. She gained world-class degrees and was feted on her return to Sydney, yet was denied access to employment in general hospitals. She established a private practice, lectured, and worked with women's organisations to progress women's health in Sydney, before tuberculosis forced her to move to Springwood, and then Trundle, where she died suddenly in 1900

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Berne, Dagmar

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First female student to study medicine in Australia, who, during her short life, pioneered women's health services in Sydney.

Berne, Florence

Governess, teacher and frustrated medical student whose lack of means meant she could not continue her studies.

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Springwood Ladies College

School which prided itself on the bracing mountain air, physical activity and healthy diet afforded its students, combined with a thorough college education.

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Springwood

Lower Blue Mountains town named by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1815 when he stopped on a 'very pretty wooded Plain near a Spring of very good fresh water.' It became popular with Sydneysiders after the western railway reached it in 1867.

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