Newnham College, Cambridge University

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Education Katharine Bruce Glasier
At nineteen Katharine Conway entered Newnham College , Cambridge, by then in its fifteenth year, where she completed the BA course, though Cambridge did not yet award degrees to women.
Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited.
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Education Hope Mirrlees
HM studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge , under the charismatic scholar Jane Harrison .
Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press.
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Education Gillian Allnutt
From Rutherford High School for GirlsGA won a place at Newnham College , Cambridge.
Education Q. D. Leavis
Queenie also was known for her bookish habits: her tastes ran especially to Henry James , along with the journals the New Statesman, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and Time and...
Education Richmal Crompton
She turned down the offer of a place at Newnham, Cambridge , because of the scholarship offer from Royal Holloway.
Education Margaret Drabble
MD received a BA in English with double first-class honours from Cambridge University (Newnham College ).
Sadler, Lynn Veach. Margaret Drabble. Twayne.
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Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
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Education Germaine Greer
GG became a Commonwealth Scholar (which meant she held a prestigious and well-funded award) at Newnham College, Cambridge , UK.
Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books.
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Education Amy Levy
AL became the first Jewish woman to study at Newnham Hall (later College) (or indeed at Cambridge University), at a time when women of any kind as undergraduates were a novel phenomenon.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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Pullen, Christine. The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy. Kingston University Press.
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Education Germaine Greer
GG 's PhD thesis, The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare 's Early Comedies, was officially approved by Cambridge University .
Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books.
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Education Emma Frances Brooke
EFB , then in her late twenties, was attending Newnham College (then in its inaugural year and occupying Merton Hall in Cambridge), as one of its eight pioneering female students.
Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
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Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press.
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Clough, Blanche Athena. A Memoir of Anne Jemima Clough. Edward Arnold.
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Anonymous,. “Woman and Home: Miss Emma Brooke, the Author of ‘A Superfluous Woman’”. The North American, p. 6.
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Education Emma Frances Brooke
Newnham College opened in September 1871 with Anne Jemima Clough as its principal, and with five pioneering students: Mary Paley (later Marshall , who encouraged Jane Ellen Harrison to follow her to Newnham), Edith Creak
Education Amy Levy
The school was one of these only recently set up by the Girls' Public Day School Company . It also took younger boys, and two of Amy's brothers attended with her. The headmistress, Edith Creak
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...
Education Mary Agnes Hamilton
After seven months studying at the University of Kiel , Mary Agnes Adamson (later Hamilton) entered Newnham College, Cambridge , on a Mathilde Blind Scholarship, an award set up by the distinguished writer .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Education Flora Macdonald Mayor
Having failed to find an intelligent balance between work and play,FMM disappointed herself and worried her father by graduating from Newnham College, Cambridge , with only a third-class degree.
Morgan, Janet. “Introduction: The Squire’s Daughter”. The Rector’s Daughter, Virago, p. v - xii.
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