Girton College, Cambridge University

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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...
Publishing Emily Shirreff
Throughout her career ES composed articles for several journals including the Contemporary Review, Fraser's Magazine, and the Fortnightly Review. Her article College Education for Women appeared in August 1870 and Schools of...
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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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...
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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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.
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...
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...
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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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 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...

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