Background
She was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
She was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
She was educated at Street Leonards School in Saint Andrews, Fife and at the London School of Medicine for Women located at the Royal Free Hospital, where she worked as a doctor in private practice and hospitals.
Anderson was the Chief Surgeon of the Women"s Hospital Corps (WHC) and a Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine In 1912, she was imprisoned in Holloway, briefly, for her suffragette activities which included breaking a window by throwing a brick. She wrote many medical articles and published a biography of her mother in 1939. In the First World War she served in France with the Women"s Hospital Corps.
Their proposals were at first rejected by the British authorities, but eventually the WHC became established at the military hospital, Endell Street Military Hospital, Holborn, London staffed entirely by women, from chief surgeon to orderlies.
The inscription on her grave stone reads "Louisa Garrett Anderson, C.B.E., Doctor of Medicine, Chief Surgeon Women"s Hospital Corps 1914–1919. Daughter of James George Skelton Anderson and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson of Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Born 28th. July 1873, died November 15.
1943. We have been gloriously happy." The archives of Louisa Garrett Anderson are held at The Women"s Library at the Library of the London School of Economics, ref 7LGA.