Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

She combined a belief in the importance of women's mission as wives and mothers with an equal belief in their potential intellectual equality with men. She was glad, she writes, when men whom she knew...

Other women who served in this position were Elizabeth Garrett and Emily Davies in London, and Flora Stevenson in Edinburgh. LB was re-elected seven consecutive times. The passage of the 1870 Education Act had created...

MGF was a member of the first Women's Suffrage Committee , formed in July 1867 after John Stuart Mill proposed his suffrage amendment in parliament. She was the youngest woman at the initial gathering. At...

BLSB attended a meeting at Elizabeth Garrett 's home to form a new provisional suffrage committee.

In a society that valued modesty, where women refrained from seeking treatment from male doctors for some medical problems, SJB saw a need for women doctors. Through extensive conflict, she became the third woman to...

A commemorative blue plaque at Uplands in Aldeburgh commemorates the births of the sisters Millicent and Elizabeth Garrett but a similar plaque at 18 Brookside, Cambridge, names MGF 's husband and merely mentions, unnamed,...

Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...

Another well-known hymn, written in 1859 and anthologized by A. H. Miles , begins with the line God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn. Cobbe also wrote verse later in her life, such...