Loewe, Herbert. Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish MSS. in the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge. Girton College.
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Girton College, Cambridge University
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham
, Girton
, and Somerville College
s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College
and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women |
| Wealth and Poverty | Helen Blackburn | HB
bequeathed her library to Girton College
, Cambridge, in memory of Lydia Becker
and Caroline Ashurst Biggs
. The collection was presented to the library in a mahogany bookcase which she designed herself... |
| Wealth and Poverty | George Eliot | With the publication of Middlemarch at the end of 1872, GE
reached the ranks of the wealthy. She invested in modern enterprises like canals, railways, and gas companies, and also gave a good deal of... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Mary Frere | Her wealth at death was £4702 12s. 1d. In her will she left the munificent bequest |
| Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Cookson | That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Emily Davies | A committee struck to commemorate the jubilee of ED
's involvement in women's education presented her with seven hundred guineas (which she donated to Girton College
) and an address from over 1,300 subscribers. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 355 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | Though she subordinates it to her attack on English aestheticism, Lee also mounts a critique on associated hetero- and homosexual practices of the time. Anne soon rejects the amorous intentions of Richard, whose passion was... |
| Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | She published several more pieces in the same journal, the last in September 1925, just before she went up to Girton College
: A Street Orator, The Philosophy of Examinations, The Dream Pedlar... |
| Textual Production | Helen Blackburn | HB
's personal archive of pamphlets, suffrage society papers, and the sources she chiefly worked from, survives at Girton College, Cambridge
, and has been filmed in 29 reels by Primary Source Media
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blackburn, Helen. “Helen Blackburn Archive”. Primary Source Microfilm: Voices of the Women’s Movement, 1850-1900. |
| Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | KR
gave a Founders' Memorial Lecture at Girton College
, Cambridge, entitled Blake
and England. Raine, Kathleen. Blake and England. W. Heffer and Son. title page |
| Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | VW
travelled to Cambridge with Vita Sackville-West
to deliver a second Women and Fiction paper at Girton College
. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press. 3: 199 |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Yonge | CY
found it easy to compose at speed: the story goes that she would work on three new pieces simultaneously: a page of one, a page of the second, a page of the third, in... |
| Textual Production | Mary Frere | Late in life MF
seems, from her sister's account, to have been working at writing something about the Hebrew language and early biblical texts. She formed gradually some theories, Frere, Georgina, and Herbert Loewe. “Biographical Notice”. Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish MSS. in the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge, Girton College, p. v - xii. vii |
| Textual Production | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
's correspondence is scattered. The Huntington Library
has six letters; others are located in the collections of her recipients, such as the Bessie Rayner Parkes papers at Girton College
and the Lovelace papers at... |
| Textual Production | Mary Somerville | MS
's scientific library was given to Girton College
, Cambridge. Swindells, Julia. “Other People’s Truths? Scientific Subjects in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville</span>”;. Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, pp. 96-108. 108 |
Timeline
16 October 1869: Educational reformer Emily Davies welcomed...
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16 October 1869
Educational reformer Emily Davies
welcomed the first five students to Girton College
.
16 October 1869: Educational reformer Emily Davies welcomed...
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16 October 1869
Educational reformer Emily Davies
welcomed the first five students to Girton College
.
July 1873: Emily Shirreff outlined the purpose and goals...
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July 1873
Emily Shirreff
outlined the purpose and goals of Girton College
in the Fortnightly Review in an effort to raise funds.
October 1873: Girton College moved to a site near Camb...
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October 1873
Girton College
moved to a site near Cambridge.
1882: A Hygienic Wearing Apparel Exhibition was...
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1882
A Hygienic Wearing Apparel Exhibition was held at Kensington Town Hall.
23 March 1899: The first paper presented to the Institution...
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23 March 1899
The first paper presented to the Institution of Electrical Engineers
(IEE) by a woman was read by Hertha Ayrton
, who was later admitted as the Institution's first female member.
By 27 September 1905: Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published...
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By 27 September 1905
Scientist Grace Chisholm Young
published the first of two scientific books co-authored with her husband, William Henry Young
: The First Book of Geometry.
Late October 1921: Following the vote against full membership...
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Late October 1921
Following the vote against full membership of Cambridge University
for women, female students had to enter lectures through mobs of barracking male students.
1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...
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1926
New statutes at Cambridge University
first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.
: An Oxford University women's rowing crew...
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Summer1927
An Oxford University
women's rowing crew beat one from Girton, Cambridge
—not by racing, which was deemed medically dangerous for delicate women, but by a separate, timed test.
1935: Helena Swanwick (suffragist, pacifist, sister...
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1935
Helena Swanwick
(suffragist, pacifist, sister of artist Walter Sickert
) published her memoir I Have Been Young.
1967: Barbara Wootton (created the first woman...
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1967
Barbara Wootton
(created the first woman life peer in 1958) became deputy speaker of the House of Lords
, first woman to sit on the woolsack
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1977: Girton, one of the two original women's colleges...
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1977
Girton
, one of the two original women's colleges at Cambridge University, admitted its first male Fellows. Male undergraduates joined them two years later.
“About Girton College”. <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_orgname">Girton College, University of Cambridge</span>.
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