Girton College, Cambridge University

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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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Employer Anita Desai
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...
Employer Kathleen Raine
KR was a research fellow at Girton College , Cambridge.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
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Employer Dora Russell
Dora Black (later Russell ) was a junior don at her old college, Girton .
Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
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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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Family and Intimate relationships Q. D. Leavis
At the beginning of her last year as an undergraduate, Queenie Roth (later QDL ) met her future husband, Cambridge don and critic F. R. Leavis , at a Girton College tea.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane.
100
Friends, Associates Emily Davies
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...
Friends, Associates Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
BLSB met Phoebe Sarah (Hertha) Marks , a Girton student who became like a daughter to her.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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Health Candia McWilliam
CMW 's struggle with alcoholism began at a very young age. In her memoir, she recalls her first taste of alcohol, a Dutch drink called advocaat, after a church service.
McWilliam, Candia. What to Look for in Winter. Jonathan Cape.
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She identifies this drink...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Kathleen Raine
For KR , poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake and followed by Coleridge , Yeats , and Edwin Muir . She was at Girton when a generation of Cambridge...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Ellen Harrison
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...

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