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| Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Amy Levy | At Brighton High School AL
developed a grand passion for headmistress Edith Creak
(a recent Cambridge
graduate). Frankly I'm more in love with her than ever, she wrote with apparent good cheer to her elder... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Philippa attended Newnham College
(the women's college founded by the efforts of her parents) and was marked higher than any other final-year student in mathematics at Cambridge
in 1890, embarrassing the university since the title... |
| 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. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | (Joan) Pernel Strachey
(1876-1951) was Tutor, Lecturer in Modern Languages, Vice-Principal, and then from 1923 to 1941 Principal of Newnham College
. She hosted Virginia Woolf
in October 1928 when Woolf addressed the Newnham Arts Society |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | Oliver Strachey
, like a number of Strachey men, worked with the East India Company
. His second wife was Rachel (Ray) Costelloe
, Newnham College
graduate, women's rights activist, and author, best known for... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's mother, born Daisy Duncan
but later called Margaret by her husband, was lovely, but completely uninterested in her own looks. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 11-12 |
| 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. 121-2 |
| Employer | Q. D. Leavis | |
| 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. |
| Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
attended Aberdeen Girls' High School
(now known as Harlaw Academy), and then, in Glasgow, a large council secondary school (then called a Board School). She also attended a class in Greek taught by... |
| Education | A. S. Byatt | Antonia Drabble (later ASB
) gained her BA (English) with honours from Newnham College
, Cambridge. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
| 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 |
| Education | Michael Field | Following her mother's death, Katharine
attended the Collège de France
in Paris. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Prins, Yopie. “Greek Maenads, Victorian Spinsters”. Victorian Sexual Dissidence, edited by Richard Dellamora, University of Chicago Press, pp. 43-81. 44 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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