Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
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Girton College, Cambridge University
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | VW
travelled to Cambridge with Vita Sackville-West
to deliver a second Women and Fiction paper at Girton College
. |
| 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 Features | Amy Levy | Based on George MacDonald
's fairy-tale Double-Story, it concerns a princess who has everything except happiness. It is written with panache: the governess is named Girton
ia to signify the excellence of her education... |
| Residence | Dora Russell | On leave from her work at Girton College
, Dora Black
(later Russell
) took an extended research trip to Paris. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1: 77 |
| Reception | P. D. James | She received an impressive number of honours from various universities. She had an Honorary DLitt from the Universities of Buckingham (1992), London (1993), Hertfordshire (1994), Glasgow (1995), Durham (1998), and Portsmouth (1999). She also had... |
| Reception | Emily Davies | Her papers at Girton
include the unpublished manuscript which she referred to as the Family Chronicle, which describes her early life, but from which the hundred pages dealing with the years 1849-61 (present when... |
| Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | These were just her top honours among many. She appeared on radio and tv programmes, acquired an honorary degree from the University of Leeds
and an honorary fellowship from Girton
, and officially opened the... |
| Reception | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Her papers are at Girton College
and elsewhere. |
| Publishing | Emily Shirreff | Throughout her career ES
composed articles for several journals including the Contemporary Review, Fraser's Magazine, and the Fortnightly Review. Her article College Education for Women appeared in August 1870 and Schools of... |
| Publishing | Sarah Waters | While she was working on her thesis, SW
also produced several academic articles. A Girton
Girl on a Throne: Queen Christina
and Versions of Lesbianism, 1906-1933 appeared in Feminist Review in 1994, The Most... |
| politics | Emily Davies | Girton College
was formally constituted through the adoption of its Memorandum and Articles of Association. This year ED
was appointed Mistress of the college (which was still at Hitchin). Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 266-7 Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, p. ix - xii, xix-lv. xi |
| politics | Emily Davies | The women's college
established and headed by ED
moved from Hitchin to Girton, a parish about two miles outside Cambridge. Spender, Dale, editor. The Education Papers. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 278-9 |
| politics | Anna Swanwick | AS
helped found Somerville College, Oxford
, and Girton College, Cambridge
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| politics | Anna Swanwick | The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore... |
| politics | Anna Kingsford | She lectured to organizations, societies, and schools, including the highly heterodox Zetetical Society
, the Sunday Lecture Society
, and the pioneering women students at Girton College
, Cambridge. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers. 91-3, 101 |
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