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 BBC - History - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was born in Whitechapel, London, one of 12 children.
When Anderson was five years old, her father became a successful merchant, and as a result was able to send his daughters to a good boarding school.
A year later, Anderson established a dispensary for women in London (where she also taught medical courses for women), and in 1870 was made a visiting physician at East London Hospital.
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 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
In 1841 Newson Garrett purchased a corn and coal warehouse in Aldeburgh in Suffolk.
Elizabeth Garrett was now a committed feminist and in 1865 she joined with her friends Emily Davies, Dorothea Beale and Francis Mary Buss to form a woman's discussion group called the Kensington Society.
Her daughter Louisa Garrett Anderson remained in the WSPU and in 1912 was sent to prison for her militant activities.
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 The Tribune - Windows - Fact File
Elizabeth Garret Anderson was born in a rich family, in 1836.
They had their first daughter when Elizabeth was 37 years old, followed by a daughter who died at the age of 15 months, and then came a boy, who 50 years later became chairman of the hospital founded by his mother.
Elizabeth’s noble and unparalleled part in the progress of the medicine field and the scope for women, made her a legend.
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 MSN Encarta - Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
In 1918 it was renamed as the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.
She met her husband, James George Skelton Anderson, through both of these endeavors—he was vice president and financial adviser of the hospital and was involved with the school board elections.
Anderson became dean of the school in 1883 and retained this position for 20 years.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Anderson Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett (1836-1917), first British woman physician and first female member of the British Medical Association.
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 AIM25: Women's Library: Papers of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Administrative/Biographical history: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the daughter of Newson Garrett and Louise Dunnell, was born in London in 1836, one of twelve children.
In 1866 Garrett created a women's dispensary and four years later was appointed visiting physician to the East London Hospital where she met James Anderson, the man who was to become her husband in 1871.
Her daughter Louisa Garrett Anderson remained and in 1912 was sent to prison for her militant activities.
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Elizabeth was unable to study medicine in Britain as medical schools refused to accept female students, but she was accepted in France, at the University of Paris.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson went on to found a London dispensary for women and children in 1866.
The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Award was established in September 2000 with the aim of honouring these achievements, so extraordinary for a woman of her time.
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 Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Elizabeth's father had originally ran a pawnbroker's shop in London, but by the time she was born he owned a corn and coal warehouse in Aldeburgh.
When Millicent was twelve years old, her older sister, Elizabeth Garrett, moved to London in an attempt to qualify as a doctor.
Emily was twenty-nine, Elizabeth twenty-three and Millicent thirteen.
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 women in history:elizabeth blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell, born in 1821, was the first woman doctor in the United States.
Elizabeth, along with two of her sisters, started a small private school for girls, to help bring in money.
Garrett Anderson was a pioneer of women doctors in England.
www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com /articles/elizabeth_blackwell.htm   (761 words)

  
 Source Database: Women and Medicine
While Elizabeth Garrett was training at Middlesex Hospital she constantly received letters asking her to give up her plans to become a doctor.
After Elizabeth Garrett qualified as a doctor in 1865 she established a dispensary in London.
Garrett Anderson has selected the very worst of all the alternatives suggested when she advises Englishwomen to go abroad for medical education… Mrs.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /s7.htm   (2411 words)

  
 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Award was established by World Headache Alliance (www.w-h-a.org) in September 2000 and is presented to a woman whose work has made an extraordinary contribution to relieving the burden of those affected by headache disorders.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was a remarkable woman who became England's first female physician in 1870.
Honorary President of the UK Migraine Action Association received the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the cause of patient empowerment in headache.
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 elizabeth garrett
Elizabeth Garrett was born in Whitechapel in 1836, one of 12 children of Newson and Louise Dunnell.
Elizabeth wrote later: “I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea.
husband, James Anderson, supported her career, they fell out when he tried to insist he take control of her earnings – under the law of the time, a wife and all she had were the legal property of her spouse.
www.eastlondonhistory.com /elizabeth%20garrett.htm   (760 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (Medicine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
A sister of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Elizabeth also worked for woman suffrage.
With difficulty she obtained a private medical education under accredited physicians and in London hospitals; in 1865 she was licensed to practice by the Scottish Society of Apothecaries.
In London in 1866 she opened a dispensary, later a small hospital, for women and children, the first in England to be staffed by women physicians; it was known after 1918 as the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.
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 Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
Unable to attend medical school because of the legal bar on women entering university, Anderson studied privately and was licensed by the Society of Apothecaries in London in 1865.
She set up St Mary's Dispensary in 1866 to treat women and children; this later became the Marylebone Dispensary for Women and Children, and was renamed the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1918.
Anderson received a medical degree from the University of Paris in 1870, and became the first woman member of the British Medical Association in 1873; in 1876 she was instrumental in getting the British government to change the law to allow women to become doctors through the normal channels.
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 BirthChoiceUK - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson & Obstetric Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
BirthChoiceUK - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital (EGA & OH) has recently reorganised the way care is provided for women.
The aim of this new approach to care for women at UCLH is to offer a woman-centred service which fully utilises the skills of midwives and obstetricians, ensuring a quality maternity service.
www.birthchoiceuk.com /Info/H105.htm   (267 words)

  
 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (de junio el 9 de 1836 - de diciembre el 17 de 1917) era el primer englishwoman a practicar como doctor.
Ella era la hija de Newson Garrett, de Aldeburgh, de Suffolk, en donde ella nació en 1836, y de la hermana de Millicent Fawcett.
Hay un hospital de Elizabeth Garrett Anderson en el camino de Euston en Londres -- éste es el nombre moderno del hospital nuevo mencionado arriba.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/el/Elizabeth%20Garrett%20Anderson.htm   (428 words)

  
 Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. Hobart and William Smith Colleges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 – May 31, 1910) received her M.D. from Geneva Medical College (the precursor of the Syracuse Health Science Center College of Medicine), the first such degree earned by a woman anywhere in the world.
In 1859 the young British feminist Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) was inspired by meeting Blackwell to try to become the first woman to earn a medical degree in Britain.
The portrait of Elizabeth Blackwell on the cover of this issue is an oil painting by the late J.S. Kozlowski of East Syracuse.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Anderson Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett (1836-1917), first British woman physician and first female member of the British Medical Association (BMA).
Fawcett, Dame Millicent Garrett (1847-1929), British woman suffrage leader, born in Aldeburgh, England.
At the age of 20 she married the British...
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 Migraine News for April 2001
Bournemouth, 9th August 2001 - Jo Liddell, Honorary President of the UK Migraine Action Association (MAA) and resident of Bournemouth, received the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (EGA) Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the cause for patient empowerment in headache.
The EGA award, established by the World Headache Alliance (WHA) and sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline, seeks to recognize a female whose work over time has made an extraordinary contribution to relieving those affected by the burden of headache.
An expert in the field of migraine, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson founded a London dispensary for women and children in 1866, which was later converted into a hospital for women - The New Hospital for Women.
www.migraines.org /New/newsiha1.htm   (685 words)

  
 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917) was the first Englishwoman to practise as a doctor.
In 1871 she married Mr J. Anderson (d.
In 1897 Mrs Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.
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 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The original domestic goddess
She is deeply unfashionable - she liked cabbage boiled for an hour - and Elizabeth David considered her a plagiarist.
The Woman's Hour audience tipped the Queen out of the basket first, then ejected Mrs B. She was followed by George Eliot, leaving the field (or rather the skies) to the great feminist doctor.
Elizabeth David considered her a plagiarist and a dumber-down of gastronomy.
www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1591938,00.html   (866 words)

  
 Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson
In 1859 she met Elizabeth Blackwell and she decided to become a doctor.
No medical school would let a women train, so she trained as a nurse.
After her retirment she became the first female Mayor in England, the Mayor of Aldeburgh.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Elizabeth Blackwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910), British-American physician and the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, British physician influenced by Elizabeth Blackwell
Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa (1840-1912), British physician who fought for the right of women to earn medical degrees.
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 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
When I was a gynaecology ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital in London, I was sometimes asked whether or not I approved of it.
In nursery six of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital in central London, a baby is gasping for breath...
Despite the cramped conditions, several said they preferred the homespun atmosphere of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson unit to the more formal concrete and glass of the new Great Ormond Street hospital, the famed children's hospital.
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 Encyclopedia: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 –; 17 December 1917) was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
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 Biographies: UVSOTA Undergraduate Victorian Studies Online Teaching Anthology
Her desire to study medicine was rooted in her feminist beliefs and what she saw as a useless life of housewifery.
Millicent Garrett was born at Aldeburgh, Suffolk on 11 June 1847 and educated at a school at Blackheath.
She was the daughter of a rich corn and coal merchant and the younger sister of of the feminist physician Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
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 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Formed the Kensington Group which petitioned for the vote for women.
In 1866 she established a dispensary for women in London, later renamed the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.
In 1902 she retired to Aldeburgh, Suffolk, but continued her interest in politics and in 1908 Elizabeth was elected mayor of Aldeburgh, becoming the first woman mayor in England.
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 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Biography / Biography of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Biographies
The following biographies focus on different aspects of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson's life and work.
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