Established in 1981 by the University in memory of Mary Elizabeth Garrett
MARY ELIZABETH GARRETT headed the Women's Medical Fund, a group of women from Baltimore and across the nation who raised the endowment necessary for the Hopkins School of Medicine to open in 1893. Miss Garrett herself provided the majority of the funds raised by the group.
The endowment the women presented to the Board of Trustees was accompanied by a stipulation that the school aspire to the highest academic standards and admit women on the same terms as men. Among the members of the Hopkins board was her father, John W. Garrett, who was president of the B&O Railroad.
FRANCES FERGUSON, the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Professor in Arts and Sciences, and a senior scholar with the National Humanities Center for 2003-04, maintains an interest in many forms of literature. Particular interests include the poetry of William Wordsworth and the novels of Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen. A professor of Humanities and English at Hopkins since 1988, Dr. Ferguson is the author of Wordsworth: Language as Counter-spirit, Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation, and Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did To Action. She served as chair of Hopkins' English Department in 2001-2003.
MARY ELIZABETH GARRETT headed the Women's Medical Fund, a group of women from Baltimore and across the nation who raised the endowment necessary for the Hopkins School of Medicine to open in 1893. Miss Garrett herself provided the majority of the funds raised by the group. 
FRANCES FERGUSON, the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Professor in Arts and Sciences, and a senior scholar with the National Humanities Center for 2003-04, maintains an interest in many forms of literature. Particular interests include the poetry of William Wordsworth and the novels of Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen. A professor of Humanities and English at Hopkins since 1988, Dr. Ferguson is the author of Wordsworth: Language as Counter-spirit, Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation, and Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did To Action. She served as chair of Hopkins' English Department in 2001-2003.