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.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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.
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was misplacing her feminist indignation. It has been said that...
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.
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“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.
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, pp. 39-40.
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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.
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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.
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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
Though she was never appointed to any actual university post, QDL worked with students from many Cambridge colleges during her career. She once candidly defined her teaching as ventriloquist work behind the scenes [achieved] by...
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.
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Employer Elaine Feinstein
She had been working at several jobs already: magazine editing, giving tutorials (at Cambridge called supervisions) to undergraduates, and teaching for the WEA . She earned money the family sorely needed (in part for school...
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.
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. Wood, now a documentary filmmaker with a focus on the found object, collaborated with Smith on theatrical projects, mounting original...
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).

March 1885: The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race...

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March 1885

The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race was completely overshadowed by the sensational antics of an American advertising company.

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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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.
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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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