“World War I Suffragette Military Hospital”. The Women’s Library Newsletter.
Louisa Garrett Anderson
Standard Name: Anderson, Louisa Garrett
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The organisation was formed by consolidating all the local societies working for Women's Suffrage. By 1907, however, MGF
turned definitively against the policy of direct action, which had become linked especially with the name of... |
Occupation | Beatrice Harraden | During the First World War, BH
worked for Belgian relief and visited refugee camps under the auspices of the Commission for Relief in Belgium
. She also worked as a volunteer (with Elizabeth Robins |
politics | Marie Belloc Lowndes | The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith
's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Robins | ER
volunteered alongside Beatrice Harraden
at the Endell Street Hospital for Soldiers
, a medical facility opened in May 1915 and directed by Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
and Dr Flora Murray
. Gates, Joanne E. Elizabeth Robins, 1862-1952. University of Alabama Press. 223-4 |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
, of Hertha Ayrton
, physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould
. These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | As the Great War rolled on ES
found herself more and more of a pacifist. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 157 |
Friends, Associates | Helen Taylor | HT
moved in political and social circles that included Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Louisa Garrett Anderson
, Emily Davies
, Elizabeth Wolstenholme
, Frances Mary Buss
, Dorothea Beale
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press. 186 Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. xxvii |
Timeline
14 September 1914: Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson and Dr Flora Murray...
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14 September 1914
Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
and Dr Flora Murray
set up the Women's Hospital Corps
, staffed entirely by women, at Claridge's Hotel in Paris.
May 1916: Under the leadership of Christobel Ellis,...
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May 1916
Under the leadership of Christobel Ellis
, 20 women began driving army vehicles for the War Office
under the auspices of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
.
By late October 1920: Flora Murray wrote about her war experience...
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By late October 1920
Flora Murray
wrote about her war experience in Women as Army Surgeons: Being the History of the Women's Hospital Corps
in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919.
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