Editing Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (section)

== Personal life ==
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson once remarked that "a doctor leads two lives, the professional and the private, and the boundaries between the two are never traversed".<ref>Manton, p. 261</ref> In 1871, she married<ref>Manton, pp. 217–218</ref> James George Skelton Anderson (died 1907) of the [[Orient Steam Navigation Company]], but she did not give up her medical practice. She had three children, [[Louisa Garrett Anderson|Louisa]] (1873–1943), Margaret (1874–1875), who died of [[meningitis]], and [[Alan Garrett Anderson|Alan]] (1877–1952). Louisa also became a pioneering doctor of medicine and feminist activist.

They retired to Aldeburgh in 1902,<ref>Manton, p. 331</ref> moving to Alde House in 1903, after the death of Elizabeth's mother. Skelton died of a stroke in 1907.<ref name=Ogilvie /> She enjoyed a happy marriage and in later life, devoted time to Alde House, gardening, and travelling with younger members of the extended family.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/5253fb57e4b0099005df3644/590128|title=Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: The Modern Woman|website=The Guardian Witness|access-date=2017-08-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817083131/https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/5253fb57e4b0099005df3644/590128|archive-date=17 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 9 November 1908, she was elected [[Mayors in England|mayor]] of [[Aldeburgh]], the first female mayor in England.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aldeburghtowncouncil.co.uk/?page_id=1504|title=Aldeburgh Town Council: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson|access-date=12 April 2021}}</ref> Her father had been mayor in 1889.

She died in 1917 and is buried in the churchyard of [[St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh]].<ref name="oxforddnb.com" />