Alice Maude Sorabji Pennell

Alice Maude Sorabji Pennell OBE (July 17, 1874 – March 7, 1951) was an Indian physician and writer.

She was the daughter and wife of Christian missionaries, and the first woman in India to earn a bachelor of science degree.

[3][4] She was trained as a physician in London, with her older sister Cornelia's encouragement and efforts,[5] completing her studies in 1905.

[7] She wrote a biography of her husband published soon after he died,[8] and novels including Children of the Border (1925), The Begum's Son (1928), and Doorways of the East (1931).

"[12] Alice Maude Sorabji married fellow physician Theodore Leighton Pennell in 1908.