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Ellen M. Firebaugh

Best remembered for a warm, witty early-20th-century memoir about life alongside a busy physician, this little-known writer turned everyday medical drama into engaging storytelling.

1 Audiobook

The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His Wife

The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His Wife

by Ellen M. Firebaugh

About the author

Ellen M. Firebaugh is the author of The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His Wife, a book first published in 1912 and still cataloged by major book databases and reprint editions today.

Very little biographical information about her appears to be readily available in the sources I could confirm. Based on the surviving records, she is known chiefly through this work, which presents domestic and professional life from the wife’s point of view and offers a small, vivid glimpse of an earlier era of medicine and communication.

Because reliable online sources about Firebaugh herself are scarce, it seems safest to describe her as an obscure author whose reputation rests mainly on this single remembered title.