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Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Occupation | A. S. Byatt | ASB
is an Associate of Newnham College
and a member of the Board of Creative and Performing Arts
. In the past, she has also been a member of the Social Effects of Television Advisory Group, BBC |
Occupation | Constance Garnett | Following the successful completion of her studies, Constance Black (later CG
) was appointed as a lecturer in classical studies at Newnham College
. However, it was only a single-term appointment and she soon began... |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | |
Occupation | Frances Cornford | Because the play was staged out of term, women were able to participate. Jane Harrison
(who knew Frances well, and had been an intimate friend of her mother) recruited several women from Newnham College
as... |
Occupation | Anita Brookner | Six of her Slade Lectures became her first scholarly publication. AB
was later elected a fellow of New Hall, Cambridge
, and also of King's College
, London University. Sadler, Lynn Veach. Anita Brookner. Twayne. 3 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. 100 Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press. 153 |
Occupation | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | A meeting was held in MGF
's drawing-room in Cambridge to discuss university lectures to be given for women: the result was the founding of the residential college for women, Newnham College
, which occurred in 1871. Weaver, John Reginald Homer, editor. The Dictionary of National Biography, Fourth Supplement, 1922-1930. Oxford University Press, H. Milford. Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray. 73 |
Occupation | Jane Ellen Harrison | After returning to England in June 1916, Harrison resumed her research and teaching (soon including Old Slavonic, Polish, Arabic, and Spanish) at Newnham College
. About now she was also made a Justice of the Peace. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 280-2 |
Occupation | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Henry Sidgwick
organised the meeting. He invited the Cambridge university dons, as well as the wives and daughters of University men living in the town of Cambridge. Lectures began the next term, and MGF
was... |
Occupation | Josephine Butler | In 1868 JB
(as president of the organization
from 1867 until around 1871) presented its petition for the examination of women candidates for entrance to Cambridge University
. The petition was granted in 1869, and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Amy Levy | During her time at Newnham
, AL
wrote several stories; her biographer, Linda Hunt Beckman
, thinks Euphemia, the only one published, is one of the weaker ones. Lallie and The Doctor each contrasts... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elaine Feinstein | |
Leisure and Society | Mathilde Blind | MB
spent a great deal of time at Cambridge, where she visited the Regius Professor of Medicine, Dr Clifford Allbutt
, and fixed on Newnham College
as the institution to which she would bequeath her fortune. Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, pp. 1-43. 41 |
Leisure and Society | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was painted several times. The National Portrait Gallery
has a portrait of her and her husband by Ford Madox Brown
, commissioned by family friend and politician Sir Charles Dilke
and painted in 1874... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
's next biography, Portrait of an Actor, 1933, took as its subject the Shakespearean actor Edward Alleyn
(in whom her interest had been aroused while she was at Cambridge
by the teaching of... |
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