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Louisa Garrett Anderson, CBE (28 July 1873 – 15 November 1943) was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer. She was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, whose biography she wrote in 1939.
Louisa Garrett Anderson was born on 28 July 1873 in London, the daughter of James Anderson, ship-owner, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first English woman to qualify as a doctor....
Feb 7, 2016 · Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson smuggled these words from her cell in Holloway prison. On 4 March 1912, she risked her personal and professional reputation by breaking a window of a house in Knightsbridge.
Oct 31, 2020 · Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943, daughter of Elizabeth) gained her MD in 1900 and became a surgeon at the New Hospital for Women. During the First World War, with her friend and fellow LSMW graduate Flora Murray (1869–1923), Garrett Anderson established a series of women-run military hospitals in France and London, where she ...
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May 31, 2020 · Along with partner Louisa Garrett-Anderson she overcame enormous obstacles in order to be allowed to treat soldiers during World War One.
Apr 1, 2019 · Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray: Redefining gender roles in military medicine. This month’s cover story describes the pioneering accomplishments of two women physicians, Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray during World War I. Jenny Held, MD, Don K. Nakayama, MD, MBA, FACS. April 1, 2019.
Established in former workhouse buildings during the First World War under the command of Dr Flora Murray & Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, the 573-bed hospital is the only British army hospital to have been staffed entirely by women.
