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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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politics | Emily Davies | The women's college
established and headed by ED
moved from Hitchin to Girton, a parish about two miles outside Cambridge. Spender, Dale, editor. The Education Papers. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 278-9 |
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 |
Wealth and Poverty | Emily Davies | A committee struck to commemorate the jubilee of ED
's involvement in women's education presented her with seven hundred guineas (which she donated to Girton College
) and an address from over 1,300 subscribers. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 355 |
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... |
Occupation | Emily Davies | |
Textual Production | Emily Davies | The manuscript, held by Girton College, Cambridge
, is discussed below. Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, p. ix - xii, xix-lv. xx |
Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Cookson | That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure... |
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 | 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 |
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. 184 |
death | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | She left £10,000 to Girton College
. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 189 |
Reception | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Her papers are at Girton College
and elsewhere. |
Wealth and Poverty | Helen Blackburn | HB
bequeathed her library to Girton College
, Cambridge, in memory of Lydia Becker
and Caroline Ashurst Biggs
. The collection was presented to the library in a mahogany bookcase which she designed herself... |
Textual Production | Helen Blackburn | HB
's personal archive of pamphlets, suffrage society papers, and the sources she chiefly worked from, survives at Girton College, Cambridge
, and has been filmed in 29 reels by Primary Source Media
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blackburn, Helen. “Helen Blackburn Archive”. Primary Source Microfilm: Voices of the Women’s Movement, 1850-1900. |
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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