![]() ![]() She did very well, and had a keen interest in cardiology. Once she had recovered, with her father's financial help, she set up in private practice in London. She wrote her first book, The Circulatory Failure of Diphtheria, but contracted the disease herself. In 1919 she was the first recipient of the William Gibson Research Scholarship for Medical Women, awarded by the Royal Society of Medicine. ![]() She interned at the Royal Infirmary in London, the only hospital in London to accept women interns at the time. She graduated in 1914 in a class of nine students. Harding attended the London School of Medicine for Women, intending to become a missionary doctor. Three of them attended university in the first two decades of the 20th century. Harding and her sisters were encouraged by their parents to learn. Coming so soon after his death, Esther maintained throughout her life that her being a girl was a bitter disappointment to her parents.) She was an avid reader and was home-schooled until the age of eleven. (A son died, aged five-and-a-half, a month before she was born. Mary Esther Harding was born in Shropshire, England the fourth of six daughters of dental surgeon, William Harding. Mary Esther Harding (1888–1971) was a British-American Jungian analyst who was the first significant Jungian psychoanalyst in the United States.
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