Newnham College, Cambridge University

Mrs Warren's daughter Vivie Warren, a classic New Woman character, is based in part on Millicent Garrett Fawcett 's daughter Phillipa , who had recently placed first in mathematics at Newnham College . Her mother's...

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...

After completing her studies at Newnham and school-teaching for a single term in Oxford, JEH settled in London.

Though still attached to Newnham College , Cambridge , JEH settled for some time in Paris with her former student Hope Mirrlees .

Six months after JEH 's death, she was commemorated at the inaugural Jane Harrison Lecture, delivered by her colleague and friend Gilbert Murray at Newnham College , Cambridge, where Harrison had studied and taught.

Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University . Cambridge University awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford

Temple Bar published AL 's story Between Two Stools, about the difficulties of a Newnham graduate who struggles not to slip back into old frivoous social round.

MGF published her first magazine article, The Education of women of the middle and upper classes, in Macmillan's Magazine, discussing lectures for women in Cambridge (the germ of Newnham College ).

The Hogarth Press printed, for private circulation only, ER 's Portrait of a Lady, or The English Spirit Old and New, a memoir of Elizabeth Yates Thompson , the shy philanthropist daughter of publisher...

This volume was reprinted by Newnham in 2002.

MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional...

ES wrote early twentieth-century novels of which the earlier ones are ambitious and highly literary, the later ones in general longer and more romantic in tone, set within the confines and structure of the family...

In 1996 Greer objected to the then all-female Newnham College (of which she was a Fellow) offering a Fellowship to the physicist and astronomer Rachael Padman , a fellow Australian and a transsexual through medical...

RS also quickly became involved in Newnham College 's support for The Cause of women.

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...