ABSTRACT
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson’s reputation as a physician spread by personal recommendation from one family to another. In the administration of her practice, Elizabeth was prompt and efficient. She met many of the leading physicians and surgeons of the day in consultation and was courteously received by them. As well as conducting hospital and private practice, Elizabeth continued to teach at the London School of Medicine for Women. In 1880 or slightly earlier she received a caller who was to play an important part in her life and the history of the medical women’s movement. Elizabeth gave a considerable time and thought to her husband’s business career, which during the 1880s was in the ascendent. Elizabeth received West Hill, a large red-brick villa with lopsided gables. It looked westward to the river, winding among its green marshes, and to the sunset in which the whole landscape of the Alde streams with translucent rays.
