Adulthood:

Becoming a doctor was easier said than done. Like many other females trying to get into medical schools, programs, or classes, Anandibai was rejected and abused (ex: spitting, throwing rocks, etc.) To add on to that, the area of where they lived did not really share their culture. They moved around to nearby cities with the same results. She decided too search farther, as in across the world in the U.S. Gopal wrote a letter to a American priest who declined their coming unless they converted to Christianity. These letters caught the attention of Theodicia Carpenter in New Jersey and began writing letters to Anandabai and they exchanged experts from their daily lives. Sadly, she could not go on the trip, she wasn't even allowed to travel overseas as a woman. Finally, Anandibai took matters into her own hands, she gave a speech to the town (the first woman to do so) about how she was going to become a Hindu doctor. Her speech encouraged the director-general of the post office to raise money to go and she got donations from many other people. She raised enough money for only one trip so she left her husband behind. In June 1883 Anandibai at last met Theodicia and became the first Hindu to land on America. She got into Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania with a scholarship to cover the rest of her degree and a living place in the dean's own house. Anandibai excelled and finished her 4 year medical program in only 3! She graduated on March 11, 1886, with her thesis not only being the longest but the most circulated. Unfortunately, Anandibai health declined as she had gotten tuberculosis. Because of this, she had to turn down a trip around America and a place at the New England Hospital for Women and Children and instead took a place at Albert Edward Hospital in Kolhaper. Despite her best efforts to get better, her health got much worse when she headed back to India in the October of 1886, and died 3 months after that. After her death India praised her for proving the "great qualities" do exist.