Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson LSA, was an English physician and suffragette, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first female doctor of medicine 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 June 1836
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When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.
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