Winifred Sweet

Winifred Sweet, writing as Annie Laurie, was a notable investigative journalist in the late 1800s. She exposed the mistreatment of women in public hospitals, particularly focusing on a doctor who abused his patients after diagnosing them with hysteria. Sweet's bold tactics included faking a medical emergency to enter the hospital as a patient, highlighting the need for change in medical treatment and women's rights during her time.