![]() ![]() ![]() 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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