![]() ![]() I’ve always considered myself really squeamish when it came to the sight of blood and operations and all that. Was that a challenge for you, and how did you find that balance? Presumably a doctor would encounter some pretty gruesome things, especially in the Victorian era, which maybe romance readers aren’t accustomed to. So I based this character Garrett Gibson on her and, of course, used the name Garrett, because I loved the idea of using a slightly androgynous name for this really tremendously accomplished and brave woman. And I could not stop thinking about her because what an incredible thing to be the only woman in an entire country for that long. ![]() After she got into the British Medical Association through a loophole after completing all these studies at the Sorbonne in France, the British Medical Association changed their rules so that no more women could be admitted for another 20 years. ![]() I was shocked to realize that she was the only female physician in England for 20-30 years and I had never even heard of her. As I was reading about important people back in the late 1800s in England, the name Elizabeth Garrett Anderson came up. When I write these historical romance novels, I do an incredible amount of research just to get the flavor of the time period and to pick up all these details that give the story life. Where did your idea for a female physician/doctor come from? ![]()
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