Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

MGF 's name became in time so identified with the suffrage struggle that a story arose depicting her sister Elizabeth and Emily Davies entrusting the issue of suffrage to her when she was a little...

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...

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