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: Received: 3 December 2023 / Approved: 4 December 2023 / Online: 4 December 2023 (07:47:48 CET)
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Nash, C. Assessing Twenty-Two Life-Changing Events of Emily Howard Jennings Stowe with a Unique Narrative Research Process. Preprints2023, 2023120157. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.0157.v1
Nash, C. Assessing Twenty-Two Life-Changing Events of Emily Howard Jennings Stowe with a Unique Narrative Research Process. Preprints 2023, 2023120157. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.0157.v1
Nash, C. Assessing Twenty-Two Life-Changing Events of Emily Howard Jennings Stowe with a Unique Narrative Research Process. Preprints2023, 2023120157. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.0157.v1
APA Style
Nash, C. (2023). Assessing Twenty-Two Life-Changing Events of Emily Howard Jennings Stowe with a Unique Narrative Research Process. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.0157.v1
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Nash, C. 2023 "Assessing Twenty-Two Life-Changing Events of Emily Howard Jennings Stowe with a Unique Narrative Research Process" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.0157.v1
Abstract
Emily Howard Jennings Stowe is acclaimed as Canada’s first female school principal, physician to practice medicine, and a founding Canadian suffragette. Yet, relatively little has been investi-gated regarding the life-changing events permitting her to pioneer in these chosen fields. To reveal relationships among the life-changing events in Emily Stowe’s life, a unique narrative research process is engaged to take Stowe’s story and develop it into a particular point of view based on responses to questions posed regarding her life, ranging from those most objective and specific to those that are subjective and more general. This is accomplished by following a prescribed order of question-asking: when, where, who, what, how, and why. The aim is to facilitate a comparison and interpretation of the connections regarding twenty-two of her life-changing events. Four dis-tinct aspects of her life are noted: personal, teacher, physician, and suffragette. It is found that much of Stowe’s success originated from her family’s Establishment connections, her studious intellectual ability, and her decision to obtain her medical education in the United States. There were notable periods in her life that might have ended her career. However, the aforementioned protective features of her status permitted the successful withstanding of these difficulties.
Keywords
Emily Stowe; Canada; female school principal; female physician; suffragette; narrative research
Subject
Arts and Humanities, History
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