Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson NPG x317

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Olive Edis

Physician, born in London and brought up in Aldeburgh, Suffolk (the sister of Millicent Fawcett). Despite opposition to the admission of women to medical education, she qualified as the first English woman doctor in 1865. In 1866 she established a dispensary for women in London which became the New Hospital of Women in 1871 where she instituted medical courses for women. Her advice to students included 'the first thing women must learn is to dress like ladies and behave like gentlemen'. In 1883 she... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.