Girton College, Cambridge University

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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...
Occupation Virginia Woolf
In October 1928 VW addressed in turn the students of the two Cambridge women's colleges: first Newnham , then Girton . She developed these lectures on women and writing into A Room of One's Own...
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.
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Education Romer Wilson
RW studied law at Girton College, Cambridge . Her results in final examinations gave her only mediocre honors.
Seymour-Smith, Martin, and Andrew C. Kimmens, editors. World Authors, 1900-1950. H. W. Wilson.
Intertextuality and Influence Romer Wilson
When one of RW 's teachers at Girton College suggested that she try writing fiction, she began to imagine half seriously that I might one day write a book.
Seymour-Smith, Martin, and Andrew C. Kimmens, editors. World Authors, 1900-1950. H. W. Wilson.
When she did eventually pick up...
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...
Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
When she began lecturing against female suffrage, she got a poor reception at the Cambridge women's colleges, Newnham and Girton , and it strained her relationship with Somerville College.
Family and Intimate relationships Iris Tree
IT 's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree , taught classics at Queen's College , Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College .
Queen's College was founded for the training of...
Family and Intimate relationships Viola Tree
VT 's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree , taught classics at Queen's College , Harley Street (a secondary, not post-secondary school for girls), but longed to be a university lecturer at Girton College .
Fielding, Daphne. The Rainbow Picnic. Eyre Methuen.
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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...
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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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&gt”;. Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, pp. 96-108.
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Occupation Emily Shirreff
ES began her term as headmistress of Emily Davies 's Girton College (at that time known as Hitchin College); she held the position for less than a year.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
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Occupation Emily Shirreff
Her sister identified the reason that she left this position: she was confronted with a persistent opposition to her influence and views concerning governance of the institution.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
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ES did however, remain a member of...

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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/.
in an institution which she saw as democratically indefensible...

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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