If other countries, such as France and America allowed women to become doctors, then England would look like the elderly uncle who refused to leave his country estate when progress was knocking right at his front door. “Bringing together innovation and advancing commerce was your father’s vision, was it not?” John had said. “Prince Albert was the mastermind behind the Crystal Palace, and look what that did for the world—brought hundreds of countries together and thousands of brilliant minds into the same location. What is more fantastic than that?”
