Girton College, Cambridge University

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.

AD has held teaching positions at Smith College (1987-88) and Mount Holyoke College (1988-93) in the USA. She was a Fellow of Girton College , 1986-88, and of Clare Hall in 1989 and 1991, both...

GE was always ambivalent about the struggle for women's rights. This ambivalence may have been fed by the fact that her situation with Lewes made her peculiarly vulnerable to public attack of a personal flavour...

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...

Some time after her husband died, MGF was offered the position of Mistress of Girton ; she declined, saying that she had no attention to spare except for the suffrage struggle.

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...

Thus MF achieved her aim of forming the nucleus of a library to be a help and inspiration for students who wanted to gain a true knowledge of Holy Writ, and encouraging students at...

Her wealth at death was £4702 12s. 1d. In her will she left the munificent bequest of her collection of ancient Semitic and Jewish manuscripts (including interesting marriage contracts) to Girton College, Cambridge ...

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, which ill health prevented her...

However, JEH 's most famous and explicit reappearance is in Virginia Woolf 's A Room of One's Own, a text which evolved from a series of lectures that Woolf—Harrison's friend, admirer, and publisher—gave at...

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...

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...

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...

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.