ABSTRACT
News that Elizabeth Garrett was now working for the Paris M.D. spread through the women’s movement. It reached the ears of the Hon. Amelia Murray, a royal lady-in-waiting who had founded the Governesses Benevolent Association and now summoned Elizabeth to the Palace to give an account of her work. In Britain a hostile vote by a university had always meant the end of Elizabeth’s hopes, but in centralized France the case was different. On 18 February 1869 Lord Lyons received a personal letter from Duruy reporting that by a special ministerial edict Miss Garrett could inscribe herself for the Paris M.D. without producing certificates of preliminary studies at the Sorbonne. On 15 June 1870 Elizabeth Garrett presented herself at the Faculty, dressed, as custom demanded, in a long gown of black wool with starched bands, bare head and rolled thesis in hand.
