ABSTRACT
The years from 1874-1878 saw medical education for women secured at last. For Elizabeth Garrett Anderson the struggle was interwoven with the joys and sorrows of family life, and the leadership of the movement during these years passed into the hands of Sophia Jex-Blake. Sophia’s vivid, tempestuous personality was a gift to journalists and their readers. By contrast the New Hospital for Women flourished in its new quarters and began to attract favourable notice in the press. Elizabeth never published her lectures, although she worked hard to revise them and keep them up to date. However Louisa Aldrich-Blake as a student attended Mrs Garrett Anderson’s lectures on medicine, and kept detailed notes of the entire course. At the New Hospital for Women, Frances Hoggan, who had never been happy about the abdominal surgery, resigned, but another qualified woman, Mrs Bovell Sturge, living nearby in Wimpole Street, was ready to take her place.
