Cambridge University

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Residence Frances Burney
FB and her husband returned to France, leaving their son at Cambridge University (where he had opted to remain) and intending to settle.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon.
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Family and Intimate relationships Frances Burney
The next brother, Charles , was expelled from Cambridge University for stealing books from the library, but eventually became respected as a clergyman and a scholar.
Occupation Josephine Butler
In 1868 JB (as president of the organization from 1867 until around 1871) presented its petition for the examination of women candidates for entrance to Cambridge University . The petition was granted in 1869, and...
Textual Production Josephine Butler
In a personal letter she said this pamphlet was written at the request of the Vice Chancellor and Dons of Cambridge .
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray.
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Family and Intimate relationships A. S. Byatt
ASB 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , was also a Cambridge graduate. He began writing novels in his retirement. He died in 1982. ASB grew up in an intellectual environment; her parents valued art...
Characters A. S. Byatt
ASB says that this book and its three successors are about the desirability of an androgynous mind.
Friel, James, and Jenny Newman. “A. S. Byatt”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction through Interviews, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Hodder Headline, pp. 36-53.
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After opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the story is set in Yorkshire (though...
Occupation Elizabeth Carter
Edward Moore 's periodical The World mooted the extraordinary concept of EC as principal of an Oxford or Cambridge college: this number may be by Hester Mulso Chapone .
The World. R. and J. Dodsley.
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Education Susanna Centlivre
It was said that she read Molière at twelve, and that she disguised herself as a boy in order to study at Cambridge University .
All this, however, belongs to a dubious area of fictionalisation...
Family and Intimate relationships Christabel Coleridge
Derwent lost his faith in orthodox Anglicanism for some years following his time at Cambridge but regained it after meeting his wife, and became an advocate of a broad theological approach. As an Anglican clergyman...
Literary Setting Ivy Compton-Burnett
Pastors and Masters takes place in a university town resembling pre-first-World-War Cambridge , which ICB had visited when her brother Noel was there. Like King's College at that date, her fictional academic community is pervaded...
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Cornford
Frances's father, Francis Darwin , later Sir Francis, was a Cambridge botanist. He had earlier worked as an assistant and secretary to his father, Charles Darwin .
Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
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His niece Gwen thought him the most...
Publishing Rosalind Coward
RC first published in Granta and Broadsheet, student periodicals at Cambridge .
Textual Features Richmal Crompton
Donald Crofton, one of the comparatively few male protagonists in RC 's oeuvre, returns home at the beginning of the novel, from university life at Cambridge to a long summer with his close-knit family. His...
politics Emily Davies
Despite her commitment to equal standards of education, ED felt that the artificial separation of boys and girls during earlier education made it impossible to have integrated university lectures and thought it wisest to situate...
politics Emily Davies
The College applied for incorporation as an Association under the Board of Trade in order to establish its legal existence. The document drawn up by the College's Committee professed the College's affiliation with both the...

Timeline

1871: The University Test Act abolished all religious...

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1871

The University Test Act abolished all religious tests (of loyalty to the Church of England ) at both ancient universities in England (Oxford and Cambridge ) for admittance to matriculation, degrees, prizes, and fellowships.

1871: Cambridge University's celebrated Cavendish...

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1871

Cambridge University 's celebrated Cavendish Laboratory for experimental physics was founded.

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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