Newnham College, Cambridge University

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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.
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Education Flora Macdonald Mayor
But FMM in 1892 managed to get into Newnham College, Cambridge , to read history, while Alice returned home to spend her days practising the piano and drawing in order to make a good marriage....
Education Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Cooklin (later EF ) received her BA in English Literature from Newnham College, Cambridge , where she had held an Open Exhibition.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books.
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Employer Jane Ellen Harrison
JEH became a resident lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge ; next year she was offered her first (and Newnham's first) Associate Research Fellowship.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press.
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Employer Q. D. Leavis
Though she was never appointed to any actual university post, QDL worked with students from many Cambridge colleges during her career. She once candidly defined her teaching as ventriloquist work behind the scenes [achieved] by...
Employer Germaine Greer
GG became a Special Lecturer and Unofficial Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge ; she held these posts until 1998.
Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
Family and Intimate relationships A. S. Byatt
ASB 's mother, Kathleen Marie (Bloor) Drabble , was a schoolteacher and a graduate of Newnham College , Cambridge.
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. A.S. Byatt. Twayne.
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Myer, Valerie Grosvenor. Margaret Drabble: A Reader’s Guide. St Martin’s Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Sylvia Plath
Aurelia Plath attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly...
Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Ormston Ford
Emily, born five years ahead of Isabella in 1850, attended the Slade School of Art in the late 1870s and became a painter well-known in the Leeds community. Like IOF , she also became a...
Family and Intimate relationships Arthur Hugh Clough
He had two brothers. He helped direct the education at home of his younger sister, Anne Jemima Clough , who became a major force in education for women and the poor, and was the first...
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Cornford
Frances's mother, Ellen Darwin , a great-niece of the poet Wordsworth , was a Fellow and lecturer in English literature at Newnham College .
Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber.
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Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
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According to Frances's cousin Gwen Darwin , a later...
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Ellen Harrison
Classics lecturer JEH met her student and later close companion, Hope Mirrlees , at Newnham College , Cambridge .
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Drabble
MD 's mother, Marie (Bloor) Drabble , came from a working-class background, was educated at Newnham College , Cambridge, and became a schoolteacher. She was not a very friendly or social person,
Hattersley, Roy. “The Darling of Hampstead”. The Guardian, pp. 6-7.
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Family and Intimate relationships Ethel Sidgwick
Henry Sidgwick , philosopher and founder of Newnham College, Cambridge , was ES 's uncle.
Family and Intimate relationships Hope Mirrlees
Soon after HM arrived at Newnham , she and Harrison began to develop a personal relationship. Frequently corresponding by letter whether they were both present in Cambridge or not, the two formulated an exclusive, fantastic...

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