ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT. 1836-1917.


Autograph Note Signed integrally ("Mrs. Garrett Anderson") to Miss Fox, 1 p, 16mo, London, June 3, 1878, on her Upper Berkeley Street calling card;WITH: Partial Autograph Letter Signed ("Elizabeth Garrett") to a Mr. Arnold, being the final leaf of a longer letter, 1 p, 8vo (2nd leaf only of bifolium), n.d., folds.FIRST WOMAN IN BRITAIN TO QUALIFY AS A DOCTOR, AND FOUNDER OF THE NEW HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN. Two autograph notes from the remarkable woman who was also the first female mayor in England in 1908. Inspired by meeting Elizabeth Blackwell in 1859, "she obtained a medical education and a registrable medical qualification. Barred from admission as a medical student to a university or London teaching hospital, she completed the required courses as a private student of teachers of recognized medical schools, and passed the examination for the License of the Society of Apothecaries. In 1865 her name was entered on the medical register, the second woman and the first British-trained woman; no more women were added until 1876. In 1870 she became the first woman to obtain an MD from the University of Paris. Admitted to the British Medical Association in 1873, she remained the only woman member for nineteen years" DMB 1, pp 113-114.