Elizabeth Garrett Anderson died of natural causes in 1917, aged 81. Recent summaries and museum/London sources note this same cause and date.
- Key point: natural causes, 1917, Aldeburgh resident at the time of her passing.[1][3]
- Context: she was a pioneering physician who helped found the London School of Medicine for Women and later served as England’s first female mayor.[3][9]
- For verification from museum sources, London Museum and related collections confirm the death details and date.[1]
If you’d like, I can pull a short, cited timeline of her major milestones and link to primary sources.
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In 1860 she resolved to study medicine, an almost unheard-of thing for a woman at that time, and regarded by some as almost indecent. Having obtained some
southeast.unison.org.ukShe was part of the group of members of the WPSU to storm the House of Commons in 1908 and was lucky not to be arrested. A year later, she went on a lecture tour with fellow suffragette Annie Kenney. In 1911, after the WSPU began to use more and more violent tactics, including arson she left the organisation. She died in 1917.
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womanandhersphere.comI have included ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON here because I am in admiration of the struggle she had to become a doctor. We tend to take educ...
inspirationalwomenofww1.blogspot.comGarrett Anderson married James Anderson in 1871, changing her name from ‘Garrett’ to ‘Garrett Anderson’. She continued to practise medicine and to be an advocate for education and careers for women. Despite her medical qualifications, she still faced discrimination in many places. In 1887, she asked permission to unobtrusively attend a lecture at one of the medical societies associated with the RCP. She wrote:
www.rcp.ac.ukElizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first female doctor to qualify in England. She opened a school of medicine for women, and paved the way for women’s medical education in Britain. She was born in Whitechapel, London, the daughter of a pawnbroker with 12 children. She was given a good education and decided to become a doctor after meeting Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor to graduate in the United States.,Anderson failed to get into any medical school and enrolled as a nursing...
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.ukElizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain. Like her sister Millicent Fawcett, she campaigned for votes for women.
www.londonmuseum.org.ukElizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 – 1917) was an English physician. The first openly female recipient of a UK medical qualification (1865)
litfl.comLeadership and Empowerment Dr Elizabeth Garret Anderson, 1836-1917 Display No. 81 Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. In nineteenth century Britain, her attempts to study at medical school were denied. She enrolled as a nursing student and attended classes intended for male doctors. She remained determined to obtain a medical
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