About the Author

Dr Elizabeth van Heyningen taught in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town for many years. Her main research interests are the history of Cape Town, the social history of medicine and the history of colonial women. Previous publications include a two-volume social history of Cape Town (with N. Worden and V. Bickford-Smith) and a history of the Cape medical profession in the nineteenth century (with H. Deacon and H. Phillips).

Reviews

A masterly exercise in the writing of social history, extremely wellinformed, utilising all the recent research - Professor Iain Smith, formerly of the University of Warwick