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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | Henry's wife, Eleanor Sidgwick
(known in the family as Nora), was therefore her aunt by marriage. Née Balfour, Eleanor was sister to Arthur J. Balfour
, who became Prime Minister. She married Henry Sidgwick in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | |
Education | Ali Smith | After completing her studies at Aberdeen, Smith began working towards a doctorate at Newnham College, Cambridge (still a women-only body). Continuing her work on the area of her MLitt, she determined to focus on the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Strachey | Another aunt, Pernel Strachey
, was Principal of Newnham College
(one of Cambridge
's two colleges for women) from 1923 to 1941. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File. 278 |
Education | Ray Strachey | After attending Kensington High School
, Ray Costelloe (later RS
) completed a degree course in mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge. (Women were not actually awarded Cambridge degrees until 1947.) Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books. 199, 238 |
politics | Ray Strachey | RS
also quickly became involved in Newnham College
's support for The Cause of women. Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books. 238 |
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... |
Education | Michelene Wandor | Michelene Samuels (later MW
) received her BA in English from Newnham College, Cambridge
. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. 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. |
Education | Mary Augusta Ward | Mary Augusta Arnold (later MAW
) attended the school for girls at Ambleside run by Anne Clough
(later first Principal of Newnham
). Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 15 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | |
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. 3: 199 |
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