My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother’s anxiety.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Quotes
I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.
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| Birth: | 9th June, 1836 |
| Death: | 17th December, 1917 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Physician |
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was born in Whitechapel, London, England. She was an English physician, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician 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.
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