Career
She is widely regarded as one of the best writers of the girls" school story. Her most acclaimed book is the 1929 title, Evelyn Finds Herself. Twenty years later Clare Mallory, another leading exponent of the girls" school story, dedicated one of her own books, Juliet Overseas to Josephine Elder, describing her as "Author of the best girls" school story I know: Evelyn Finds Herself."
Throughout her writing career she continued to practise as a doctor.
Josephine Elder was educated at Croydon High School and later at Cambridge University where she studied medicine.
She practised as a G.P. in Sutton, Surrey from 1923 to 1983.
