Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

LMA was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett , Ralph Waldo Emerson , who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau , who taught science to her and her...

Other women who served in this position were Elizabeth Garrett and Emily Davies in London, and Flora Stevenson in Edinburgh. LB was re-elected seven consecutive times. The passage of the 1870 Education Act had created...

BLSB attended a meeting at Elizabeth Garrett 's home to form a new provisional suffrage committee.

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.

Partly through her membership of the Kensington Society (a social and political discussion group of about fifty women inaugurated in 1865), JB broadened her acquaintance with significant members of the feminist movement, including Frances Power Cobbe

At this time JB 's health continued to deteriorate. Her biographer notes that she had trouble both with her lungs and her heart. As she sought better medical treatment, she eventually became one of...

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.

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...

IC worked with Elizabeth Garrett , and Lady Stanley of Alderley towards establishing the Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge .

At Gateshead, ED began life-long friendships with Annie Crow (later Austin) and Jane Crow (from 1848), and Elizabeth Garrett (later Anderson), from 1854. No letters from her to Anderson survive, although a number from Anderson...

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 )...

Her younger husband wrote that he was stunned by the frightful suddenness of her death. She was buried in Highgate Cemetery, London; the large attendance at the funeral included her estranged brother Isaac