Ladies' Sanitary Association

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Isa Craig
IC worked with Elizabeth Garrett , and Lady Stanley of Alderley towards establishing the Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge .
Historian Perry Williams cites the founding date of the Association as 1857.
Williams, Perry. “The Laws of Health: Women, Medicine and Sanitary Reform, 1850-1890”. Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780-1945, edited by Marina Benjamin, Basil Blackwell, 1991, pp. 60 -88.
60
McCrone, Kathleen E. “The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and the Advancement of Victorian Women”. Atlantis, No. 1, pp. 44 -66.
48
Goldman, Lawrence. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
121

Timeline

Probably October 1858
The Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge was founded through the work of Isa Craig , Elizabeth Garrett , and Lady Stanley of Alderley , and others.
Probably October 1858
The Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge was founded through the work of Isa Craig , Elizabeth Garrett , and Lady Stanley of Alderley , and others.