The 'Women of Renown' Series - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

By H. Bellis

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was born on 9 June 1836 in London, the second of eleven children of Newson Garrett and his wife, Louisa née Dunnell.
Elizabeth lived a very accomplished life she was both an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician as well as a surgeon in Britain.
She co-founded the first hospital staffed by women, was the first woman M.D. in France, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as Mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor and magistrate in Britain.
She was undoubtedly a "Women of Renown."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carveth Press
• Release date: Apr 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781447498537