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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. 61, 63 |
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. 132-5 |
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. 4 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. 192 |
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. 109 |
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. 37, 137 Pullen, Christine. The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy. Kingston University Press. 158 |
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. 117n22 |
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. 12 , No. 2, pp. 153-68. 156 Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press. 163 Clough, Blanche Athena. A Memoir of Anne Jemima Clough. Edward Arnold. 155 Anonymous,. “Woman and Home: Miss Emma Brooke, the Author of ‘A Superfluous Woman’”. The North American, p. 6. (31 May 1895): 6 |
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. xii |
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