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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. She was the first female dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be electe…
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science · English physician, doctor and feminist (1836–1917) · politician · physician · suffragist · writer · also Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Anderson
Born 9 June 1836 · Died 17 December 1917 · Q235464
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Is to be called the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Building
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1988· 1 entry
Published “Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.” in Psychological Bulletin — cited 31,780 times.
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1918· 1 entry
And amalgamated with the Obstetric Hospital in 2001 to form the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital before relocating to become the University College Hospital Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing at UCH
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1917· 2 entries
Died 1917-12-17.
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And is buried in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh
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1912· 1 entry
“a doctor leads two lives, the professional and the private, and the boundaries between the two are never traversed”
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1908· 1 entry
Career landmark: mayor of Aldeburgh (1908–1911).
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1902· 1 entry
Moving to Alde House in 1903, after the death of Elizabeth's mother
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1897· 1 entry
Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the BMA
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1892· 1 entry
Women were again admitted to the British Medical Association following a long campaign by Anderson and others
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1878· 1 entry
A motion was proposed to exclude women following the election of Garrett Anderson and Frances Hoggan
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1874· 2 entries
Henry Maudsley's article on Sex and Mind in Education appeared, which argued that education for women caused over-exertion and thus reduced their reproductive capacity, sometimes causing "nervous and even mental disorder
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Co-founded and served as dean of the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW)
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1873· 1 entry
Garrett gained membership of the British Medical Association (BMA)
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1872· 1 entry
The dispensary became the New Hospital for Women and Children, treating women from all over London for gynaecological conditions; the hospital moved to new premises in Marylebone Street in 1874
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1871· 1 entry
Married James George Skelton Anderson (died 1907) of the Orient Steam Navigation Company, but she did not give up her medical practice
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1866· 2 entries
But by then Garrett had already opened St Mary's Dispensary for Women and Children, at 69 Seymour Place
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Garrett Anderson and Davies presented petitions with more than 1,500 signatures asking that female heads of household be given the right to vote
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1865· 2 entries
Garrett finally took her exam and obtained a licence (LSA) from the Society of Apothecaries to practise medicine, the first woman qualified in Britain to do so openly (previously there was Dr James Barry who was born and
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There was an outbreak of cholera in Britain, affecting both rich and poor, and in their panic, some people forgot any prejudices they had in relation to a female physician
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1862· 1 entry
By the Society of Apothecaries who, as a condition of their charter, could not legally exclude her on account of her sex
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1861· 2 entries
Studied at Middlesex Hospital (1860–1861).
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Presented a memorial to the school against her admittance as a fellow student, despite the support she enjoyed from the administration
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1858· 1 entry
That Garrett first read of Elizabeth Blackwell, who had become the first female doctor in the United States in 1849
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1854· 1 entry
When she was eighteen, Garrett and her sister went on a long visit to their school friends, Jane and Anne Crow, in Gateshead where she met Emily Davies, the early feminist and future co-founder of Girton College, Cambrid
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1851· 1 entry
Were sent on a short tour abroad, ending with a memorable visit to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London
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1841· 1 entry
At the age of 29, he moved his family to Suffolk, where he bought a barley and coal merchants business in Snape, constructing Snape Maltings from 1846
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1837· 1 entry
Leaving the business to his eldest son, Garrett's uncle
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1836· 1 entry
Born 1836-06-09.
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