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Garrett Anderson was also active in the women's suffrage movement.

In 1866, Anderson and Davies presented petitions signed by more than 1, 500 asking that women heads of household be given the vote.

She was not as active as her sister, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, though Anderson became a member of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1889.

After her husband's death in 1907, she became more active.

As mayor of Aldeburgh, she gave speeches for suffrage, before the increasing militant activity in the movement led to her withdrawal.

Her daughter Louisa, also a physician, was more active and more militant, spending time in prison in 1912 for her suffrage activities.