Elizabeth Garrett Anderson facts for kids

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English medical doctor and sister of Millicent Fawcett. She is known for being the first woman to qualify as a doctor and surgeon in Britain and for starting a medical school for women. She was also the first female mayor in Britain. She had three children She taught herself french to go to the University of Paris.

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  Her parents, Newson and Louisa Garrett in their old age; from What I Remember by Millicent Garrett Fawcett

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  A portrait of Garrett in the 1860s

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  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson before the Faculty of Medicine, Paris

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  Caricature of Garrett Anderson published in 1872

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  Garrett Anderson circa 1889

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  The Hospital for Women, now occupied by Unison, in 2018

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  Garrett Anderson with Emmeline Pankhurst on Black Friday, 18 November 1910

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  The Garrett Anderson Centre, Ipswich Hospital