She is credited as being the second woman doctor in Birmingham and was President of the Medical Women's Federation from 1920 to 1922.

She was educated at the new Mason Science College, the forerunner of Birmingham University, when it opened in 1880, where she was one of the first four women students.

[citation needed] Sturge returned to Birmingham in 1895 to take up general practice.

Established in 1871, the hospital was unusual in that constitutionally 50 per cent its committee of management was female.

She cared for her aunt, women's rights activist Eliza Sturge, who died at her house in 1905.