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'''Susila Anita Bonnerjee''' (died 25 September 1920) was a doctor, educator and suffragist who advocated for women's education and health in England and India in the late 1800s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Susila Anita Bonnerjee|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/taxonomy/term/291/janaki-agnes-penelope-majumdar|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-15|website=Making Britain: Croyden}}</ref>

== Life and education ==
Bonnerjee was born to [[Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee]] (a founder and the first president of the [[Indian National Congress]]) and Hemangini Motilal. She was one of six children (four sisters and two brothers), and was educated and lived primarily in [[Croydon]], [[England]], where her parents owned a home. They travelled frequently to their ancestral home in Kolkata as well. <ref name=":0" /> She died in [[Lahore]], [[Pakistan]] (then part of [[British Raj|British India]]), in 1920.<ref name=":0" />

== Education and career ==
Bonnerjee was educated at the [[Croydon High School|Croyden High School]] for Girls, and later attended [[Newnham College, Cambridge|Newnham College]], [[Cambridge]], where she studied the natural sciences.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Newly-discovered photograph highlights the role of Indian suffragists – Newnham’s Dr Susila Bonnerjee (NC 1891) – Newnham College|url=https://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-news/newly-discovered-photograph-highlights-the-role-of-indian-suffragists-newnhams-dr-susila-bonnerjee-nc-1891/|access-date=2020-10-15|website=www.newn.cam.ac.uk}}</ref> She went on to study medicine at the [[London School of Medicine for Women]], and earned an M.B. degree in 1899.<ref name=":1" /> Bonnerjee was one of a small group of Indian women (including [[Rukhmabai]], Alice Sorabji, and Merbai Vakil) who trained in medicine in England in the 1800s, later returning to India to help establish the medical profession for women and to open educational institutions for women's education.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Burton|first=Antoinette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0cML3XpbOucC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA170&dq=Susila+Bonnerjee&hl=en|title=Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism|last2=Sinha|first2=Mrinalini|last3=Bayly|first3=C. A.|date=2011-05-03|publisher=Duke University Press|year=|isbn=978-0-8223-4902-0|location=|pages=170|language=en}}</ref>

Bonnerjee initially practiced medicine at the [[Royal Free Hospital]]. She later moved back to her familial home in Kolkata, India, and in Delhi, at Cambridge Mission Hospital.<ref name=":0" /> Her sister Janaki has recorded in her memoirs that Bonnerjee was the only available doctor at her mission station during a plague epidemic, and that the strain of treating patients in this time affected her own health.<ref name=":1" /> Facing objections from her family over her desire to establish her own practice, she returned to Cambridge in 1906, but was unable to establish an independent practice there either, frequently encountering incidents of racism and harassment that were recorded by her sister Janaki in a family history.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Majumdar|first=Janaki Agnes Penelope|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FhNuAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=Janaki+Majumdar+family+history&q=Janaki+Majumdar+family+history&hl=en|title=Family History|date=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-566360-0|language=en}}</ref> Bonnerjee later joined the Balfour Laboratory at Newnham College, where she conducted research and taught physiology to students at [[Girton College, Cambridge|Girton]] and Newnham Colleges.<ref name=":0" />

In 1911, Bonnerjee was elected the president of a private organisation named the Indian Women’s Education Association, and worked to raise funds to help educate Indian women in England. She was also active in the [[Women's suffrage|suffragist]] movement in England, and in 1913, she became a branch president of the [[Church League for Women's Suffrage|Church League for Women’s Suffrage]] in [[Ealing]], [[England]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Science|first=London School of Economics and Political|title=Unearthed photograph highlights important role of Indian suffragettes|url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2019/g-July-2019/Unearthed-photograph-highlights-important-role-of-Indian-suffragettes.aspx|access-date=2020-10-15|website=London School of Economics and Political Science|language=en-GB}}</ref> During World War I, she was given a temporary post as Home Surgeon in a hospital in Bristol.<ref name=":1" /> She continued to travel between India and England to teach medicine and raise funds for women's education until her death in 1920.<ref name=":0" />

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