Sibyl Widdows

In a lengthy obituary, her successor, Phyllis Sanderson, noted how Widdows had been one of the last of the remarkable women who staffed the School during the first forty years of this century, an uphill and critical period in the history of this medical school. 09 Sanderson added As so many of her contemporaries, she was an ardent feminist and willingly sacrificed her own career as a chemist for the cause most dear to her heart, the training of women doctors at Hunter Street, the only training ground in Medicine open to women in England at that time. 69 

Life in the Chemistry Department at LSMW was also described by Sanderson  

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Sibyl Widdows [4] Florence Mary Wood [2] Olive Workman [2]... 

Up until Field s resignation, the Chemistry Department had always been in the hands of women chemists. However, her upgraded replacement position of a University Professorship of Chemistry, tenable at the RHC, was advertised in the 15 March 1913 issue of The Times as open to men and women on equivalent terms. Sibyl Widdows (see below) sent a letter to many of the former RHC students expressing her opposition ... 

Sanderson, P. M. (1960). Obituary Sibyl Widdows. Royal Free Hospital Journal 23 21—22. 

Sibyl T. Widdows (P) [4] Head, Practical Chemistry Department, London School of Medicine for Women... 

Anon. (1960). Sibyl Taite Widdows. Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry 84 233 and letter from Senate House, University of London. Keith Austin, Archivist (1998). 

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