“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Cambridge University
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Education | Susan Miles | 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. |
Education | Lady Rachel Russell | Mary Berry
, who wrote that LRR
spent her youth in those occupations which it has been agreed to call the education of females, Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. x |
Education | Rosamond Lehmann | 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. Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 55 “Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: A Chronology”. University of Cambridge. |
Education | Selima Hill | SH
received her BA in English from Cambridge University
, after a course interrupted by illness, which therefore took longer than the norm. Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol. 6 , pp. 39-40. 39 British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Education | Elizabeth von Arnim | 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... |
Education | May Sinclair | MS
visited Professor Henry Melvill Gwatkin
at Cambridge
, and was treated to a series of conversations on history, philosophy, and metaphysics which amounted to informal tutorials. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 66-7 |
Education | John Donne | 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... |
Education | Mary Webb | Mary Meredith (later MW
) attended Cambridge University
extension lectures on literature and history, until ill health intervened. Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth. 74-5 |
Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | 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. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 33-4 |
Employer | Winsome Pinnock | In her late teens WP
planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as... |
Employer | Q. D. Leavis | |
Employer | Anita Brookner | AB
became the first woman Slade Professor of art at Cambridge University
. 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. 144 |
Employer | Elaine Feinstein | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ali Smith | AS
met her longtime partner Sarah Wood
at Cambridge University in the 1980s Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, pp. 186-29. 196 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Drabble | MD
's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble
, also attended Cambridge
, and served in the RAF
during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour
candidate for the Tory seat... |
Timeline
1871: Cambridge University's celebrated Cavendish...
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1871
Cambridge University
's celebrated Cavendish Laboratory
for experimental physics was founded.
1871: Newnham College for women was founded in...
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1871
Newnham College
for women was founded in Cambridge.
1873: The Cambridge Association for the Higher...
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1873
The Cambridge Association for the Higher Education of Women
secured admission for women to the lectures of Cambridge University
.
1881: Cambridge University began admitting women...
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1881
Cambridge University began admitting women to degree examinations, but women were not awarded degrees on the same terms as men until they finally obtained that privilege in 1947 (first degrees awarded in 1948).
27 April 1890: Cambridge University scientist Walter Heape...
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27 April 1890
Cambridge University
scientist Walter Heape
transferred embryos from a pregnant Angora rabbit to the uterus of a Belgian hare.
1893: The Exeter Technical and University Extension...
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1893
The Exeter Technical and University Extension College was founded.
1916: Cambridge University opened its medical examinations...
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1916
Cambridge University
opened its medical examinations to women.
March 1917: With war raging and Russian revolution imminent,...
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March 1917
With war raging and Russian revolution imminent, the Cambridge University
Senate met to map out a B.A. degree in English.
By June 1919: The new English Tripos (or BA degree course)...
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By June 1919
The new English Tripos (or BA degree course) at Cambridge
was declared by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
to be an established success.
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books.
133
By autumn 1921: Cambridge University gave women undergraduates...
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By autumn 1921
Cambridge University
gave women undergraduates the right to attend university lectures, and eventually to receive a degree in name—without, however, the attendant privileges, including full university membership.
Late October 1921: Following the vote against full membership...
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Late October 1921
Following the vote against full membership of Cambridge University
for women, female students had to enter lectures through mobs of barracking male students.
1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...
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1926
New statutes at Cambridge University
first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.
1931: The first British female academic philosopher,...
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1931
The first British female academic philosopher, Susan Stebbing
, published A Modern Introduction to Logic, the first textbook to popularise Bertrand Russell
's and Alfred North Whitehead
's difficult new formal logic alongside the old Aristotelian variety.
1932-1935: Although Ludwig Wittgenstein expressly forbade...
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1932-1935
Although Ludwig Wittgenstein
expressly forbade it, analytic philosphers Alice Ambrose
and Margaret MacDonald
secretly took notes during his Cambridge
lectures; these were later published (with Wittgenstein's approval) in two volumes known as the blue and...
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