Newnham College, Cambridge University

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Wealth and Poverty Jane Ellen Harrison
Retirement from Newnham left JEH with an annual pension of £50. Though initially reluctant about the scheme, she accepted a fund of £325 contributed by friends, former students, and other supporters.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press.
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Wealth and Poverty Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham , Girton , and Somerville College s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
Travel Hope Mirrlees
After completing her studies at Cambridge , HM embarked for France and Italy with her Newnham College friend Karin Costelloe .
Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Katharine Bruce Glasier
The novel centres on the cross-class relationship between Margaret Ayrton, a gardener's daughter, and Harry Burne, owner of the estate at which Margaret's father works. When Margaret wins a scholarship to study at Newnham College
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Agnes Hamilton
Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...
Textual Production Ethel Sidgwick
ES 's Mrs. Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, appeared two years after its subject's death. Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, née Balfour (1845-1936) had been President of Newnham College , Cambridge, from 1892 to 1910.
Sidgwick, Ethel. Mrs. Henry Sidgwick. Sidgwick and Jackson.
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Textual Production Hope Mirrlees
Sandeep Parmar , the first scholar to draw on the Mirrlees Archive at Newnham College, Cambridge , published her edition of HM 's Collected Poems.
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Textual Production Hope Mirrlees
HM worked all through her later years on a biography of Jane Harrison . She never completed it, partly from indecision as to how much of Harrison's private life to reveal. The text is now...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH published Newnham : An Informal Biography, where the word biography is loosely applied to the story of an institution.
O’Malley, Ida. “The Meaning of Newnham to Women”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1776, p. 128.
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Textual Production Jane Ellen Harrison
JEH 's extensive archive at Newnham College, Cambridge , was deposited there by her companion Hope Mirrlees .
Briggs, Julia. “The Wives of Herr Bear”. London Review of Books, pp. 24-5.
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Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF returned to the genre of short biography by contributing (with Margaret Drabble , Claire Tomalin , and others) to Breaking Bounds: Six Newnham Lives, published by Newnham College in 2014. She wrote on...
Textual Production Violet Hunt
VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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Often writing in French, she used her diaries to record and explain her perceptions of daily events and experiences; her entries are sometimes rooted in fact but...
Textual Production Violet Hunt
VH 's literary executor was Gerald Henderson , librarian of St Paul's Cathedral . (He was not her first choice: she had approached Dorothy Richardson and Ethel Colburn Mayne .) In 1962, following Henderson's death,...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW delivered one of her two papers, Women and Fiction (later revised to become A Room of One's Own), at Newnham College , Cambridge.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
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Textual Features E. B. C. Jones
These sister heroines are only two among a large, upper-middle-class family, the Cunninghams: two of the children of the second wife, Mrs Cunningham. Irene, the eldest daughter, reflects how queer it is of her stepmother...

Timeline

1871: Newnham College for women was founded in...

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1871

Newnham College for women was founded in Cambridge.

1882: A Hygienic Wearing Apparel Exhibition was...

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1882

A Hygienic Wearing Apparel Exhibition was held at Kensington Town Hall.

early June 1890: Philippa Fawcett of Newnham College, Cambridge,...

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early June 1890

Philippa Fawcett of Newnham College, Cambridge , was placed above the Senior Wrangler in the university's mathematics results.

28 August 1900: Henry Sidgwick, philosopher (and husband...

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28 August 1900

Henry Sidgwick , philosopher (and husband of Eleanor Sidgwick , Principal of Newnham College ), died of cancer at his brother-in-law's house in Terling, near Witham, Essex.

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.

1939: Cambridge's first professorship bestowed...

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1939

Cambridge 's first professorship bestowed on a woman, the Chair of Archaeology. was achieved by Dorothy Garrod of Newnham .

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