ABSTRACT
The most urgent need for Elizabeth Garrett in the summer of 1863 was to work at practical anatomy; she had done no dissecting since leaving the Middlesex two summers before. She spent July at Manchester Square with Louie, writing to medical men all over England and Scotland, and offering a fee of twenty-five guineas for the anatomy certificate required by the Apothecaries’ Hall. Elizabeth’s natural steel had been tempered by her experiences of the last three years in London and Scotland. She was far beyond the stage when a snub of this kind could deflect her from her purpose. Mastering her resentment, she continued to write her letters of polite request. In the New Year of 1864 Elizabeth Garrett decided, with the greatest reluctance, to resort to the tactics which had gained her entrance to the Middlesex Hospital, and applied to attend the London for nursing experience.
