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    The 'Women of Renown' Series - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
    The 'Women of Renown' Series - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
    The 'Women of Renown' Series - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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    The 'Women of Renown' Series - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

    By H. Bellis

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    Published as part of the ‘Women of Renown’ series, this book describes the life of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), the English physician and suffragist, and the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. It offers a poetic and insightful read for historians and those with an interest in Anderson, women’s history or biographical writing. Chapters: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - Adventurous Journey - Worthy Establishment - An Exciting Summer - Gradual Awakening - First Woman Doctor - Important Decision - At Work in the Wards - Undaunted by Setbacks - A Step forward - Joint Enterprise - Resolute Candidate - Honoured in France - Continental Adventure - Education Reform - A Happy Marriage - Happiness and Success - Student insurgents - Widespread interests - Elizabeth’s Children - Further Bitterness Aroused - Active Retirement - Pioneer Medical Unit. Using the original text and artwork, this vintage text is being republished in a high quality, modern and affordable edition, complete with a specially written concise biography.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateOct 30, 2012
    ISBN9781447498537
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      The 'Women of Renown' Series - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - H. Bellis

      was!

      Adventurous Journey

      The two girls were sad to be leaving their happy home in Aldeburgh, but they were off to their first school. Naturally they were eager and excited as they set out on this new adventure.

      And a real adventure it was, in those days, just over a hundred years ago.

      First there was the journey itself.

      There were, at that time, a few of those new and rather alarming railroads in England.

      Along these railroads, iron monsters, driven by steam, snorted and clanged their noisy way at the terrific rate of thirty miles an hour. But the railway had not yet reached Aldeburgh.

      Indeed, even the Stage Coaches did not call at the sleepy little place, for the main road was four miles away.

      When, a few years earlier, the Garrett family had removed from London to this little fishing village they had come by water. The two eldest girls, Louisa and Elizabeth, still remembered the discomforts of the journey and the difficulties of landing young children and furniture from open boats.

      Now they were going back to London by road and rail! What a thrilling experience!

      Father had brought them and their luggage in the pony trap from their home, to the main road where they had joined the coach.

      This, drawn by its four splendid horses, was now bowling along the turnpike road to Ipswich between hedges white with dust.

      At Ipswich the two girls, aged fifteen and thirteen, were met by a friend of the family, and seen safely aboard the steam-drawn train which took them swiftly to London.

      Here they were met by an uncle, who escorted them to a four-wheeled growler with straw on the floor!

      The growler, or cab, was drawn by a wretchedly thin old horse, so the girls had plenty of time to see something of the streets of London as they wound their way slowly from the station to Blackheath.

      What a thrilling journey they had had—pony trap, stage coach, steam train and growler! And what a long time they had been on the way, though only forty miles or so separated Blackheath from their home at Aldeburgh.

      But their minds were already leaping forward to the second stage of their adventure.

      Ah! Here at last was their school! What sort of a place would it be? How anxiously the girls, who had seldom been away from home, leaned forward to catch the first glimpse of their new abode!

      Worthy Establishment

      There were very few schools for girls in 1849, and Mr. Garrett had taken great pains to find what he considered a suitable one for his growing daughters.

      He had finally decided on the Academy for the Daughters of Gentlemen at Blackheath.

      This school was kept by Miss Browning and her sister, aunts of Robert Browning, who was just then making a name for himself as a poet.

      Louisa and Elizabeth were full

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