... hospitals. However, three women were about to change this. Mary Seacole, Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Florence Nightingale was born into a rich family in 1820. As a young women Florence felt that God had called her to help others. She decided she wanted to become a nurse, hearing this her parents were extremely disappointed, being a nurse in the 1850s was considered as a low class career. In contrast, Mary Seacole was born in Kingston, Jamaica her mother was a nurse and her father was a Scottish solider. In spite of the two women's different backgrounds they both wanted to become a nurse and were extremely determined to get there. Our third contributor is Elizabeth Garrett Anderson another important figure in progressing medicine. Anderson was very fortunate to become the first women doctor. Anderson gained a lot of support on the way of achieving this though, her father ...

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