The Woman Who Would Not Look Away

In 1880, a woman named Anna Kingsford walked across a stage in Paris to receive a medical degree that had taken six years to earn in an institution that never quite believed she belonged there. She was the only woman in the room. She was also the only graduate who had completed the entire curriculum without harming a single living creature. Anna Kingsford was a Victorian mystic, a medical doctor, a vegetarian pioneer, and an animal welfare advocate who spent her short life insisting on something the world was not yet ready to hear: that science and conscience are not opposing forces to be balanced against each other, but part of the same pursuit of the same reality. She died at forty-one, largely forgotten. The world she helped build caught up anyway. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/woman-who-would-not-look-away Share and read comments: https://harmonia.email/podcast-comments?field_podcast_feed_value=the_golden_thread&from_node=374