Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

A few months following her arrival in Edinburgh, SJB received a letter from Elizabeth Garrett outlining Garrett's intention to apply to Edinburgh University to study medicine. Garrett spent two weeks living with SJB ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

MGF was a member of the first Women's Suffrage Committee , formed in July 1867 after John Stuart Mill proposed his suffrage amendment in parliament. She was the youngest woman at the initial gathering. At...

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...

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,...

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

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 )...

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

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...