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Author Description <b>Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson</b>, CBE was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer.<br /><br />Anderson was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3300252.Elizabeth_Garrett_Anderson" title="Elizabeth Garrett Anderson" rel="nofollow noopener">Elizabeth Garrett Anderson</a>, whom she wrote a biography of in 1939. Anderson was the Chief Surgeon of the Women's Hospital Corps (WHC) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her aunt, Dame <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/781503.Millicent_Garrett_Fawcett" title="Millicent Garrett Fawcett" rel="nofollow noopener">Millicent Garrett Fawcett</a>, was a British suffragist.<br /><br />Anderson never married, but lived with her partner and colleague, Dr Flora Murray. They are buried at the Holy Trinity Church, near to their home in Penn, Buckinghamshire.

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