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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Standard Name: Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
Used Form: Elizabeth Garrett
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | George Eliot | Her younger husband wrote that he was stunned by the frightful suddenness of her death. |
| Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | The two women first had to complete their medical degrees at Bern in Switzerland, then gain clinical experience in London, before sitting the examinations in Dublin. Annie Clark
, Eliza Walker Dunbar |
| Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | In reponse to this incident, Henry Maudsley
, lecturer in insanity at St Mary's Hospital, published the article Sex in Mind and in Education, opposing medical education for women. His article in turn prompted... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Several of MGF
's sisters were concerned with the status of women. Elizabeth Garrett
(later Elizabeth Garrett Anderson) was pre-eminent amongst them: she became the first female doctor in Britain, whose successful entrance to, and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Apparently he had proposed to other young women before being accepted by Millicent. According to Ann Oakley
, Millicent's sister Elizabeth
may have opposed the marriage because although she herself had declined to marry Henry... |
| Friends, Associates | Emily Davies | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Edmund Garrett (a cousin of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
and Millicent Garrett Fawcett
) was the first young Englishman whom Marie Belloc had ever got to know well; as a French girl, she was equally strange... |
| Friends, Associates | Constance Naden | CN
was a friend of the two poets who shared the name Michael Field
(who also came from Birmingham) and of the medical doctor Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(who presumably did not hold against her the... |
| Friends, Associates | Louisa May Alcott | 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... |
| 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 | Edith J. Simcox | Her connection with George Eliot
and her own political activities brought EJS
into friendly association with a number of key social figures including William Morris
, Eliza Orme
, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
. Fulmer, Constance M. et al. “Preface, Introduction and Editorial Materials”. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot, Garland, pp. xi - xvii, 1. xii Fulmer, Constance M. “A Nineteenth Century ’Womanist’ on Gender Issues: Edith Simcox in her <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Autobiography of a Shirtmaker</span>”;. Nineteenth Century Prose, Vol. 26 , No. 2, pp. 110-26. 115 |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | She met a number of important writers through her newspaper work. She associated with Alexander Macmillan
, Sir George Grove
, Edmund Gosse
and his wife Ellen
, John Morley
, and her uncle Matthew Arnold |
| Friends, Associates | Jessie Boucherett | 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Sophia Jex-Blake |
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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