Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Another well-known hymn, written in 1859 and anthologized by A. H. Miles , begins with the line God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn. Cobbe also wrote verse later in her life, such...

Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...

A commemorative blue plaque at Uplands in Aldeburgh commemorates the births of the sisters Millicent and Elizabeth Garrett but a similar plaque at 18 Brookside, Cambridge, names MGF 's husband and merely mentions, unnamed,...

In a society that valued modesty, where women refrained from seeking treatment from male doctors for some medical problems, SJB saw a need for women doctors. Through extensive conflict, she became the third woman to...

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...

HM was elected to the London School Board in a landslide, topping the poll with 19,000 votes. She was the third woman on the board; this was the month after Emily Davies and Elizabeth Garrett

BLSB and other Langham feminists such as Jessie Boucherett and Emily Davies formed the society for the discussion of political and social issues. The first meeting was held at the home of Charlotte Manning ...

Isa Craig , Emily Davies , Bessie Parkes , Jessie Boucherett , and Elizabeth Garrett were members of the committee. Later on Clementia Taylor joined it too.

CN entered energetically into both philosophical and philanthropic circles in London, working for many causes, particularly those involving women's health and political emancipation. She was affiliated with the Indian National Association , working for the...

FPC was also influential in the passage of the 1882 Married Women's Property Act. Slow to embrace the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts because she thought it might harm the larger cause, she later...

Even some of her own supporters blamed FPC 's tactics—which included plastering London with disturbingly graphic pictures—for alienating public opinion.

Although BRP fought ardently for female empowerment, she was not as vocal in her opinions as many of her contemporaries, including Barbara Leigh Smith, Emily Davies , and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson . She was firm...

ED 's friend Elizabeth Garrett determined to become a doctor after hearing Dr Elizabeth Blackwell lecture. When Garrett found her studies at Middlesex Hospital impeded by the medical profession's prejudice against women, ED helped her...

The Education Act of 1870 allowed for the election of women to School Boards; ED 's prominence as an education activist is evident in her election as only the second woman (following Elizabeth Garrett )...

She aimed to establish credibility for a female medical college by gathering an impressive group of physicians. They included the editor of the British Medical Journal, Ernest Hart , Thomas Henry Huxley , Dr...