Cambridge University

TD and Aru were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick

Kathleen Royds (later Innes) received her Teacher's Diploma in Theory (Class I) and Practice, from Cambridge University.

JEH was unusual for the time in writing her Tripos examinations: women were not awarded degrees at Cambridge until 1948, and during the 1870s only about twenty percent of Newnham students attempted the degree course...

It was said that she read Molière at twelve, and that she disguised herself as a boy in order to study at Cambridge University .

She won the Charity Reeves and Thomas Montefiore Prizes to begin her doctoral dissertation, also at Cambridge .

At home, she taught herself Italian and also received instruction in Latin from Michael Slegg , a friend of her brother's from Cambridge University .

MG gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge by Queenie Leavis , whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis

She also attended more than one school in London. Novelist John Cowper Powys (whose lectures she had attended) wrote her a recommendation for a Cambridge scholarship, but she was not successful in gaining one.

RL achieved a Class II in the English Tripos (the first of two exams deciding class of degree awarded) at Cambridge . This was the first year that women were awarded degrees, at least in name.

Mary Berry , who wrote that LRR spent her youth in those occupations which it has been agreed to call the education of females, was misplacing her feminist indignation. It has been said that...

May was a strong student. In the Senior Certificate public examination in July 1883 she emerged top in history among pupils at all Ealing schools, and she particularly impressed her examiners with an essay about...

SH received her BA in English from Cambridge University , after a course interrupted by illness, which therefore took longer than the norm.

He was admitted while very young to Oxford University (where he did not, however, take his degree) and later to Lincoln's Inn . He was a law student when he wrote most of his love-poetry...

Mary Meredith (later MW ) attended Cambridge University extension lectures on literature and history, until ill health intervened.

Encouraged by Mary Paley , one of Newnham College 's first students, JEH took and passed the Cambridge University Examination for Women. She finished as top candidate and received a scholarship from Newnham.