Green, Tony. “Letters: Fall of the wild”. The Guardian, p. 41.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Standard Name: Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
Used Form: Elizabeth Garrett
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Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
Textual Features | Judith Kazantzis | 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... |
Reception | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | A commemorative blue plaque at Uplands in Aldeburgh commemorates the births of the sisters Millicent and Elizabeth Garrett |
Author summary | Sophia Jex-Blake | 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... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Isa Craig
, Emily Davies
, Bessie Parkes
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Elizabeth Garrett
were members of the committee. Later on Clementia Taylor
joined it too. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 154-5 |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | Even some of her own supporters blamed FPC
's tactics—which included plastering London with disturbingly graphic pictures—for alienating public opinion. She had earlier warned her sister Society members in an address not to rely on... |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | 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... |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | The school was located at 30 Henrietta Street, Brunswick Square. It opened with fourteen students (one of them Jex-Blake herself) on 12 October. Thirteen people contributed £1,000 each towards the organization. Students had to... |
politics | Emily Davies | 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... |
politics | Fanny Aikin Kortright | She combined a belief in the importance of women's mission as wives and mothers with an equal belief in their potential intellectual equality with men. She was glad, she writes, when men whom she knew... |
politics | Emily Davies | 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
)... |
politics | Henrietta Müller | 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 |
politics | Constance Naden | 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... |
politics | Lydia Becker | 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... |
Timeline
December 1809: Posing as a male and calling herself James...
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December 1809
Posing as a male and calling herself James Barry, Margaret Bulkley or Bulkeley entered Edinburgh Medical School, thus launching what became a distinguished career in medicine.
Probably October 1858: The Ladies' National Association for the...
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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.
August 1860: Elizabeth Garrett began her work at Middlesex...
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August 1860
Elizabeth Garrett
began her work at Middlesex Hospital as a nurse and unofficial student.
October 1860: Elizabeth Garrett asked to register formally...
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October 1860
Elizabeth Garrett
asked to register formally as a medical student at Middlesex Hospital, but her request was denied.
June 1861: A meeting of the Medical School Committee...
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June 1861
A meeting of the Medical School Committee of the Middlesex Hospital
considered a protest from a group of male students against the dangerous innovation of female students.
23 May 1865: The Kensington Society, a quarterly women's...
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23 May 1865
The Kensington Society
, a quarterly women's discussion group devoted to social and political issues, held its inaugural meeting in London.
October 1865: Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's...
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October 1865
Elizabeth Garrett
obtained an apothecary's licence through the Society of Apothecaries
: this began her medical career, after her rejection by the Universities of London
, Edinburgh
, St Andrews
, Oxford
, and Cambridge
.
June 1866: Elizabeth Garrett (Britain's first female...
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June 1866
Elizabeth Garrett
(Britain's first female medical practitioner, an apothecary qualified since the previous October) established St Mary's Dispensary
for Women in Seymour Place, Marylebone, London.
1869: The East London Hospital for Sick Children...
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1869
The East London Hospital for Sick Children
opened; this was the first hospital in the country to admit children under the age of two years.
February 1869: Denied access to a degree in England because...
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February 1869
Denied access to a degree in England because of her sex but with an apothecary's licence and considerable medical experience behind her, Elizabeth Garrett
began her medical degree at the Sorbonne
, Paris, from...
18 September 1869: Elizabeth Garrett published a letter in The...
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18 September 1869
Elizabeth Garrett
published a letter in The Lancet informing readers that two scholarships were available for women's medical study, each worth £50 for three years.
25 January 1870: Elizabeth Garrett wrote an article for The...
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25 January 1870
Elizabeth Garrett
wrote an article for The Pall Mall Gazette in favour of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
March 1870: Elizabeth Garrett was designated visiting...
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March 1870
Elizabeth Garrett
was designated visiting Medical Officer at the East London Hospital for Sick Children; she was the first female doctor ever hired for a hospital post.
June 1870: Elizabeth Garrett graduated with a medical...
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June 1870
Elizabeth Garrett
graduated with a medical degree from the Sorbonne, having been unable to obtain one in England.
9 August 1870: The Education Act established a national...
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9 August 1870
The Education Act established a national elementary education system governed by local school boards, to which women could be elected.
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