A researcher with a large manuscript often has no publisher. Researcher Marianne Millwood was convinced of the importance of her manuscript and overcame refusals to publish it. Her ambitions were thwarted because of her gender and the title of the manuscript: "A Treatise on the Absence of Accurate Representation of Women in the Education of Our Physicians, and the Consequences of the Lack thereof." These reasons for rejection are related to her gender. In order to understand how she wrote this manuscript, it is necessary to know her character.