Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London S
Detail from a portrait of Garrett Anderson circa 1900
Her parents, Newson and Louisa Garrett in their old age; from What I Remember by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
A portrait of Garrett in the 1860s
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson before the Faculty of Medicine, Paris
Millicent Fawcett
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Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association, the
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
…opposite the church in Aldeburgh until 1852. Newson's malting business expanded and more children were born, Edmund (1840), Alice (1842), Agnes (1845), Millicent (1847), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam (1850), Josephine (1853) and George (1854). By 1850, Newson…
Fawcett, c. 1873
Millicent and Henry Fawcett
Millicent Fawcett co-founded Newnham College for Women in 1871