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It was a simple letter asking for a place to study at Scotland’s oldest university which helped start a revolution in higher education. A 140-year-old letter written by a lady calling for her to be allowed to study medicine at St Andrews University has been discovered by researchers.Written by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1873,the seven-page document,which urged the university to allow women to study medicine at the institution, was released yesterday on International Women’s Day.

The document was discovered buried in the university archives（档案）by part-time history student Lis Smith,who is completing her PhD at St Andrews Institute of Scottish Historical Research.She said：“We knew that Sophia Jex-Blake and her supporters,in their effort to open up ?university medical education for women, had written to the Senatus Academicus（校评议委员会） at St Andrews in an attempt to gain permission to attend classes there,but we didn’t know documentary evidence existed.While searching the archives for information about the university?s higher certificate for women, I was astonished to come across what must be the very letter Jex?Blake wrote.”

In the letter,Sophia and her supporters offered to hire teachers or build suitable buildings for a medical school and to arrange for lectures to be delivered in the subjects not already covered at St Andrews.Although her letter was not successful,it eventually led to the establishment of the Ladies Literate in Arts at St Andrews,a distance-learning degree for women.The qualification,which ran from 1877 until the 1930s, gave women access to university education in the days before they were admitted as students.It was so popular that it survived long after women were admitted as full students to St Andrews in 1892.

Ms Jex-Blake went on to help establish the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874.She was accepted by the University of Berne,where she was awarded a medical degree in January 1877. Eventually,she moved back to Edinburgh and opened her own practice.

这是一封简单的信，要求入读苏格兰最古老的大学，这会对改革高等教育制度有所裨益。这封信是被一名研究员发现的，信出自一位女士的手，已有140年历史，内容是要求入读圣安德鲁斯大学（St. Andrews University）的医学课程。这封信是索菲亚杰克斯布雷克（Sophia Jex-Blake）在1873年写的，长达七页，要求大学的医学院允许妇女入读，信在昨日国际妇女节被公开。

该份文件是被夹杂在大学的芸芸档案之中，被兼读制学生丽斯史密斯（Lis Smith）发现，她正在圣安德鲁斯学院苏格兰历史研究所（St. Andrews Institute of Scottish Historical Research）完成她的博士学位课程。她说：「我们听说过索菲亚杰克斯布雷克和她的支持者，她们曾致力争取让妇女接受大学提供的医科教育。她曾致信圣安德鲁斯的校评议委员会，要求让她们上这里的课，但不知道确有文件的存在可以证实。当时我正翻阅档案，搜索大学为女性开设的高级证书课程的资料，我很惊讶地发现那封必定是杰克斯布莱克写的信。」  

在信中，索菲亚和她的支持者愿意自行聘请教师，为医学院兴建适合的校舍，及安排在圣安德鲁斯开设未有提供的课程。虽然她的信并未取得成功，但最终导致圣安德鲁斯在1877​​年至1930年代，开办艺术文化远程教学学位课程，专为妇女而设，让

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