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A. J. Cronin. Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. [2] His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and ...
0-450-01041-4. The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking in its treatment of the contentious subject of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later. [1] [2]
W. Somerset Maugham. William Somerset Maugham [n 2] CH ( / mɔːm / MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) [n 1] was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and ...
Jovan Stejić (1803–1853) Serbian writer and physician. Henry Thompson, (1820–1904) indefatigable British polymath, scholar and novelist. Margaret Todd (c. 1859 – 1918) Scottish writer and doctor who wrote under the pen name Graham Travers and published several novels including Mona Maclean, Medical Student.
Richard Gordon (born Gordon Stanley Benton, 15 September 1921 – 11 August 2017, also known as Gordon Stanley Ostlere ), [1] was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine.
It includes novelists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a diffusing subcategory of Category:Women novelists by nationality . Articles about British women novelists in the parent category should be moved to this subcategory.
This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]
James Hilton (1900–1954), Lost Horizon. John Buxton Hilton (1921–1986), crime fiction. Thomas Hinde (1926–2014) Joanna Hines (living) Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009) Barbara Hofland (1770–1844), moral stories for children. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886–1962) Margaret Holford (1778–1852) Jane Holland (born 1966), Girl Number One.