Elizabeth Garrett Anderson died on December 17, 1917, in Aldeburgh, England, from complications related to a heart condition. She was 81 years old. This is well documented in historical biographies and reference works [sources cited in-line below].
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By her wise statesmanship, steady pressure, and high ideals she was instrumental in securing the admission of women to various qualifying bodies and to important medical societies, and in ensuring the equality of their status with that enjoyed by men. She died at Aldeburgh 17 December 1917, and is buried in the churchyard there, beside her father and mother.
en.wikisource.orgA detailed biography of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson that includes includes images, quotations and the main facts of her life. Women's Suffrage. Parliamentary Reform. Key Stage 3. GCSE British History. A-level. Last updated: 21st August 2023.
spartacus-educational.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) >Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) was an english physician who was >the first woman to qualify in medicine in Britain and who pioneered the >professional education of women.
www.encyclopedia.comElizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 – 1917) was an English physician. The first openly female recipient of a UK medical qualification (1865)
litfl.comIn 1860 she resolved to study medicine, an almost unheard-of thing for a woman at that time, and regarded by some as almost indecent. Having obtained some
southeast.unison.org.ukAnderson, 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.com*Like so many Victorian women, Elizabeth suffered the loss of one of her children. One of her two daughters died of meningitis in infancy. Of the surviving son and daughter, it was the daughter Louisa who followed in her mother's footsteps, becoming a surgeon and suffragette herself, co-founding the Women's Hospital Corps during World War I, and publishing a biography of her mother, based on family letters, in 1939.
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