Girton College, Cambridge University

Though MBE attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association presided over by Karl Marx , she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt...

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...

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 .

BLSB helped Emily Davies to found Girton College , which was of but not in Cambridge, the first step towards a women's college at one of the ancient English universities.

BLSB met Phoebe Sarah (Hertha) Marks , a Girton student who became like a daughter to her.

She left £10,000 to Girton College .

Her papers are at Girton College and elsewhere.

In addition to collaborating in the establishment of Girton College , JB also financed the Commercial School for Girls , where twenty women at a time were taught the rudiments of clerical work for office jobs.

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...

Her papers at Girton include the unpublished manuscript which she referred to as the Family Chronicle, which describes her early life, but from which the hundred pages dealing with the years 1849-61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...

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).

The women's college established and headed by ED moved from Hitchin to Girton, a parish about two miles outside Cambridge.

Following a dispute over governance, ED resigned as Honorary Secretary and Executive Committee member of Girton College , and ceased to be actively involved in its affairs.

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.

At Gateshead, ED began life-long friendships with Annie Crow (later Austin) and Jane Crow (from 1848), and Elizabeth Garrett (later Anderson), from 1854. No letters from her to Anderson survive, although a number from Anderson...