Margaret Charlton : notice biographique

Margaret Ridley Charlton (1858-1931) was a pioneer in medical librarianship, a scholar and a founder of the international Medical Library Association. Charlton was born at Laprairie, Quebec, and educated almost entirely at home until the age of 16, when she joined the first group of girls to be admitted to the Montreal High School. She was the Assistant Librarian of the McGill Medical Library from 1895 to 1914, and Librarian of the Academy of Medicine in Toronto from 1914 to 1922. In 1898 she became co-founder, along with Sir William Osler and Dr. George Milbray Gould, of the Medical Library Association, an international organization which led the way for other specialized library associations in Canada and the United States. Charlton also wrote several children's books, including a two-volume collection of fairy tales called "A Wonder Web of Stories" (1892) which has the distinction of being the first book of fairy tales to be published in Canada.

Canadian Society for the History of Medicine Newsletter

15-16

Spring 1983

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