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Octavia Wilberforce

(Wilberforce, Octavia, 1888-1963)

Octavia Wilberforce (1888–1963) was an English physician who made a medical career despite opposition from her parents, with support from Elizabeth Robins. She was in general practice in Brighton, and ran a women's shelter near Henfield. She treated Virginia Woolf's mental illness in the final years of Woolf's life. She was also friends with multiple members of the Bloomsbury Group. (From Wikipedia)

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Wilberforce, Octavia, 1888-1963: Prudence and Peter, and Their Adventures With Pots and Pans (New York: W. Morrow and Co., c1928), also by Elizabeth Robins, illust. by Lois Lenski (page images at archive.org)

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