Harding, E.
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Mary Esther Harding
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Mary Esther Harding was born in Shropshire, England as the fourth daughter in six of a dental surgeon. She was an avid reader and home schooled until the age of eleven. Pursuing her goal of becoming a missionary doctor, she attended the London School of Medicine for Women, where she graduated in 1914 with a class of nine students. She was then an intern at the Royal Infirmary in London, the first hospital in London to accept women interns. Here she wrote her first book, The Circulatory Failure of Diphtheria and later contracted the disease. After her recovery a friend named Constance Long gave her Beatrice Hinkle's translation Psychology of the Unconscious by Carl Jung, which led her into entering analysis with a small group of sympathetic students in Jung's Küsnacht home in Zurich, Switzerland.