Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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 .

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 .

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...

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...

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 ...