"Mona Maclean, Medical Student: A Novel" by Graham Travers is a book written by a Scottish doctor. The book follows the titular character as she faces the intense trials and tribulations of studying medicine in the early 1900s. It's an eye-opening look at just how difficult learning to be a doctor is.

The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 1 includes a general introduction ‘ The Wife’ and ‘Janet Doncaster’.

This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.