ABSTRACT
On 21 June Elizabeth voted in support of the regulation that only females should teach infants and senior girls, a decision which opened a professional career to hundreds of young women from relatively humble homes. In fact Elizabeth ran 20 Upper Berkeley Street, on five floors, without electricity or central heating, both as a home and consulting rooms, with the help only of a cook and a housemaid. Marriage, far from withdrawing Elizabeth Garrett Anderson from public life, gave her new poise and confidence. In the year of her marriage she did more public work than ever before. In July 1871 she was elected to the Statistical, Law and Parliamentary Committee. In May 1872 Elizabeth began to give courses of lectures for women on anatomy and physiology. In 1873 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson operated in a variety of gynaecological conditions, fibroid of uterus, prolapsus, cancer, imperforated vagina, mammary abscess, ovarian tumour and fistula.
