Brighton, MA. Sponsored Topics. Brighton is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and is located in the northwest corner of the city. It is named after the town of Brighton in the English city of Brighton and Hove.
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Elizabethâs older sister Anna was a poet, translator, and journalist who wrote for many newspapers in the United States and other countries, and her younger sister Emily also studied medicine, earning her degree a few years after Elizabeth. Henry Blackwell, one of Elizabethâs younger brothers, became an editor, journalist, and businessman and the husband of Lucy Stone, a prominent abolitionist and suffragist. After a year teaching and studying in North Carolina, Elizabeth Blackwell moved to Philadelphia, then considered the seat of medical learning in America, and applied for admission to the four medical colleges there.