The Life and Accomplishments of Elizabeth G. Anderson Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was born on the 9th of June, 1836 in Whitechapel, London to Newson Garrett, who was a pawnbroker and later on became an owner of a corn and coal warehouse, and to Louise Dunnell, who had 12 children in total. In her early life, Anderson was given a good education and wanted to become a doctor. Because she was a woman, Anderson failed to get into any medical school. Eventually, she started attending a medical school with male colleagues, but was expelled because of some complaints from them. Eventually, she became a physician and a feminist as well as a co-founder of the first hospital that was staffed by women and became the first woman that became officially approved of practicing medicine in Britain. Eventually, she married J. Anderson in 1871. Some of Garrett’s accomplishments included her establishing and co-founding a woman’s hospital. Also, Garrett maintained a strong interest in the reform of education. At the time free basic education was becoming a reality for children that were poor, and the working men of the district in which she practiced medicine requested her to run for election to the school board. She was elected to the London School Board in 1870, the same year she obtained her M.D. degree from the University of Paris. In 1869 Garrett applied for a position at the Shadwell Hospital for Children in London. One of the members of the hospital board of directors who interviewed her was James George Skelton Anderson, her future husband. As said before, they got married in 1871. Anderson’s accomplishments achieved a lot of things. Her founding of the first women’s hospital let women work as nurses and doctors. Women got a little more rights about their job choices and were recognized to be good for that particular job. Today, many women work as nurses and doctors, and many other jobs they couldn’t have during Anderson’s time. Her accomplishments achieved a piece of equality. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WandersonE.htm http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/elizabethgarrettanderson.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Garrett_Anderson http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Anderson-Elizabeth-Garrett.html#b