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- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) died of natural causes at age 81 in Aldeburgh, England. This is consistently reported across multiple reputable sources, including Britannica and museum/institutional timelines.
- Her death date is commonly given as December 17, 1917, with subsequent acknowledgment of her long career as a pioneering physician and suffragist.
- Several historical summaries note that after a long career, she retired to Aldeburgh and passed away there; some accounts also mention her daughter continued her medical legacy.
If you’d like, I can pull more details from specific sources (e.g., Britannica, London Museum pages, or encyclopedias) and summarize any discrepancies or nuances, such as variations in death date reporting or biographical milestones.
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womeninexploration.orgThere are cases where the towering homogeneity of Victorian culture is exaggerated. The era of Prince Albert and Lord Palmerston was, after all, also the age of George Eliot, Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. Beneath the deceptive appearance of total societal conformity were swirling currents of dissent and radicalism that would shape the twentieth century once the Great War decisively threw Europe’s staid self-confidence for a loop. However, there are pockets of history where Victorianism’s reputat
www.wisarchive.comAnderson, Elizabeth Garrett (1836–1917)First British woman doctor and founder of the New Hospital for Women, the first hospital in England to be staffed entirely by women, and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, England's first women's medical school. Name variations: Elizabeth Garrett. Source for information on Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett (1836–1917): Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia dictionary.
www.encyclopedia.comElizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 – 1917) was an English physician. The first openly female recipient of a UK medical qualification (1865)
litfl.comThe surgeon and physician would have been 180 today
www.the-independent.comElizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician who advocated the admission of women to professional education, especially in medicine. Refused admission to medical schools, Anderson began in 1860 to study privately with accredited physicians and in London hospitals and was licensed to practice
www.britannica.comElizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain. Like her sister Millicent Fawcett, she campaigned for votes for women.
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