Background
Elizabeth Whitehead was born into a Unitarian family in Chelsea, Malleson was the first child of 11.
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Elizabeth Malleson
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After working as a governess and teaching at the experimental Portman Hall School. Malleson became involved with Frederick Maurice"s Working Men"s College. Malleson founded the Working Woman"s College in Queen Square in Bloomsbury in 1864, and the Association in 1889 which supplied District Nurses into England"s villages.
The college became open to both men and women in 1874 after the Working Men"s College refused an offer to merge.
The Malleson"s "College for Men and Women" continued in operation to 1901. Malleson moved with her family to Dixton Manor in 1884 and there she was concerned to find that there was little local service of nurses for pregnant women.
Malleson arranged for a trained nurse to be available to serve the people of Gotherington. Malleson"s scheme was not the first but she decided to form a national organisation and her appeal for help brought her into contact with Lady Lucy Hicks-Beech.
She was the wife of Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl Street Aldwyn and they gathered enough support to launch a Association.
In 1871 Queen Victoria decided to use £70,000 donated to her Jubilee to found the Queen"s Nursing Institute in 1889. Malleson"s nurses became the Division in 1891 and Malleson became the organisation"s secretary.
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Membership
In 1863 she was a founding member of the Ladies" London Emancipation Society.
