Elizabeth Horne Bain Bryson née Macdonald (19 August 1880, Dundee — c.1969, London) was a physician, broadcaster, and prominent member of the League of Mothers, an organisation promoting the Christian upbringing of children.
[1] She graduated at the age of 19 from the University of St Andrews with a degree in English Literature with first-class honours.
As a woman, she was not offered a hospital appointment in Scotland and left for New Zealand to enter private practice as an assistant.
[2] Bryson returned to Britain in the 1930s and studied psychology at the Tavistock in London, applying this in her pioneering research on the psychosomatic approach in gynaecology.
Her autobiography has been quoted by researchers on topics such as the power of the book in the lives of working people and the medical career ambitions of women of her generation.