Girton College, Cambridge University

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Education Rosamond Lehmann
RL went up to Girton College, Cambridge University , on a scholarship to read English Literature, joining her elder sister, Helen, who was already there.
Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press.
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Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
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Education Rosamond Lehmann
RL , an undergraduate at Girton , achieved a Class II in French in the Modern and Classical Languages Tripos at Cambridge (the second of her two sets of final exams); she had secretly hoped...
Education Margaret Forster
Having sat the Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams at her school in Carlisle (taking the gamble of an extra term at school after her A-levels to do so, though if she failed to make Oxbridge...
Education Ada Leverson
AL was educated at home in French, German, and (by a Girton College graduate) Classics.
Education Dora Russell
Dora Black (later Russell ) studied modern languages and history at Girton College . She graduated BA with First Class Honours, although as a woman she was not allowed at this date actually to take...
Education Candia McWilliam
After finishing at St George's, she sought to go to boarding school as a means of escape, and following a rupture and detachment from my father's house she entered Sherborne School for Girls , an...
Education Dora Russell
Back in England, she was tutored by her father in Greek and Latin; her reading of the Medea by Euripides later informed her first book, Hypatia; or, Woman and Knowledge. Dora then earned a...
Education Dora Russell
After finishing her degree course at Girton College , Dora Black (later Russell ) studied French, and eighteenth-century French literature in particular, at University College, London . She did her work mainly in the British Museum
Education Henrietta Müller
In her late twenties, HM became one of the first batch of students to study at Girton College , Cambridge, despite some opposition from her father .
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge.
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Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. New Press.
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Education Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS badly wanted to go to university, and begged her father to send her to Girton , but . . . he thought it would be too much for the highly-strung little daughter so dear...
Education Henrietta Müller
HM took a third in the moral science tripos at Girton College , Cambridge.
A third means a third-class honours or one level above a passdegree: respectable but not particularly distinguished. In thiscase taking...
Education Q. D. Leavis
Queenie Roth (later QDL ) began her university career by going up to Girton College on a scholarship.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane.
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Education Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Chattopadhyaya (later SN ) continued her studies at English universities, first King's College, London , and then Girton College, Cambridge .
Sengupta, Padmini. Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. Asia Publishing House.
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Naidu, Sarojini. “Introduction and Notes”. Sarojini Naidu, Selected Letters 1890s to 1940s, edited by Makarand Paranjape, Kali for Women, p. Various pages.
viii, 1n2, 35-7
death Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
She left £10,000 to Girton College .
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
189
death Mary Somerville
After her death, much of MS 's library was presented to the Ladies' College at Hitchin (now Girton College , Cambridge), and in 1879 Somerville College at Oxford University was named after her.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16.
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