Abstract
Following retirement Edith and Florence were occupied by travel and family matters. Unfortunately both sisters had episodes of illness or injury. More distant trips were made to South Africa and to India to look at both the medical and social conditions of women. Florence was interested in the therapeutic value of sunlight and in the pelvic deformities that resulted from bone disease caused by its absence. Following her retirement, Edith renewed her concern with promoting the rights of women, particularly in the workplace and in education. Following Florence’s death she was widely mourned.
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‘She (Gertrude) always had watercolour painting equipment with her wherever she went’. A. J. Stoney interviewed by Edith McKinnon. Alex Stoney family archive.
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The Cancer Hospital was founded as the Free Cancer Hospital in 1851 by the surgeon William Marsden who had also founded the Royal Free Hospital in 1828. It later became the Royal Marsden Hospital.
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Thomas, A., Duck, F. (2019). Family, Retirement and Travel. In: Edith and Florence Stoney, Sisters in Radiology. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16561-1_17
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