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Occupation | Emily Davies | |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Occupation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | 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. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 173 Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, p. vi, 354 pp. 273 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | |
Occupation | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | 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. Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, pp. 184-02. 189 Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray. 106-7 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. 140 |
Occupation | Mary Frere | 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, Loewe, Herbert. Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish MSS. in the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge. Girton College. ii |
Occupation | Jessie Boucherett | 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. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 232n4 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. |
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. 140 |
Occupation | Marion Moss | One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton
(1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and George Eliot
. She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies... |
Occupation | Emily Davies | 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. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 318, 341-2 |
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... |
politics | Anna Kingsford | 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. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers. 91-3, 101 |
politics | Henrietta Müller | After her studies at Girton
, Henrietta Müller
established herself as an political activist devoted to the social advancement of women. Independently wealthy with no need to earn her living, she was able to pursue... |
politics | Matilda Betham-Edwards | 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... |
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