biography
| name: |
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson
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pronunciation:
[holdayn]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1862–1937)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK, the sister of John Scott Haldane and Richard Burdon Haldane. She studied nursing, for a while managed the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and became the first woman justice of the peace in Scotland (1920). She wrote a life of Descartes (1905) and edited his philosophical works, translated Hegel, and wrote commentaries on George Eliot (1927) and Mrs Gaskell (1930). |
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