Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London

Her parents were active in the founding of Queen's College in May 1848. There and at Bedford College , JW attended lectures by F. D. Maurice and Francis Newman . James Martineau was also an influence.

After Oxford (where she gave the lectures which launched her scholarly career), HW applied for various academic jobs, which her biographer Monica Blackett considers it lucky she did not get. (Many of these jobs included...

AS had the honour of presenting the first lady graduates from Bedford College to the university chancellor to receive their degrees; they were the first women graduates in Britain.

AS became for a five-year term the Visitor to Bedford College : the first female one appointed, in succession to distinguished male scholars.

Years later, sitting in the capacity of what amounted to a chaperone in classes taught by Francis William Newman at Bedford College , she noticed a slight error in his exposition, told him of it...

Well before she became a feminist, AS on her first arrival in London became interested in the plight of little girls whose working-class parents kept them at home to mind the baby while their brothers...

Before holding the figurehead position of Visitor to Bedford College , she had already served in the capacity of lady visitor (with responsibility to maintain discipline: in effect a chaperone) in the mathematics classes given...

The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore...

Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer , Anna Brownell Jameson , Frances Power Cobbe , Thomas Carlyle , George MacDonald , Lady Eastlake , Elizabeth Rundle Charles , Lady Martin

In May 1898 and in 1899 AS addressed large audiences at the Jubilee ceremonies at both Queen's and Bedford College . On the former occasion she was introduced to Queen Victoria .

FS studied at Bedford College, University of London .

JS began teaching English at Rolle College in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth , which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then...

Carol-Ann Lumley (later CR ) attended Bedford (then a women's college, and a school of London University), to study philosophy.

FMR hoped to become a painter, and devoted most of [her] girlhood to painting before the full development of her interest in social and political issues. Vernon Lee in Miss Brown, 1884, somewhat...

Rathbone's chapter originated as a paper entitled The Harvest of the Women's Movement, which she had delivered at Bedford College in November 1935 as one of the Fawcett Lecture series and printed under the...