WOMAN'S WORK.
Las: December there passed away a notable wonman, Klizabeth Garrett Anderson, at the age of 8 2. She was the first English woman edior. For 30 years she foug r ht a strenuous battle with the conservatism of the Medical Schools, who for so long refused to ojH'n :heir doors to women students. She took her medical degree in Paris, and was then put uoon the British Medical Register. The doctor was also an ardent suffragist. Inj she was elected Mayor of Aldeburgh, being thus also “the first woman Mayor in England.” Her daughter, Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson recen.ly received the Order of Commander of the British Empire as “organiser of the first hospital ran by women at the Front.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 273, 18 March 1918, Page 10
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122WOMAN'S WORK. White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 273, 18 March 1918, Page 10
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