Twinkle at Highland Court, Kent

Twinkle at Highland Court, Kent
Twinkle at Highland Court, Kent

ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON HOSPITAL

The 1890 core of the former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital building in Euston Road has been listed and, restored. It was built to provide health care and obstetrics to women in central London from the mid-Victorian era. It is now part of the University of London

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. 


 

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