Dr Octavia Wilberforce
(1888-1963)

Died aged c. 75

Octavia Wilberforce (1888–1963) was an English physician who made a medical career despite opposition from her parents, with support from Elizabeth Robins. She was in general practice in Brighton, and ran a women's shelter near Henfield. She treated Virginia Woolf's mental illness in the final years of Woolf's life. She was also friends with multiple members of the Bloomsbury Group.

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Here lived Elizabeth Robins 1862-1952 actor, writer, suffragette with Octavia Wilberforce 1888-1963 pioneering woman doctor

24 Montpelier Crescent, Brighton, United Kingdom where they lived