Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick

Standard Name: Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred

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Education	Mary Agnes Hamilton	Hamilton writes that tertiary education for women at the time was still on its trial; Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 38, 60 the women students at Newnham were totally separated from the masculine undergraduate population. To her, with her...
Family and Intimate relationships	Ethel Sidgwick	Henry's wife, Eleanor Sidgwick (known in the family as Nora), was therefore her aunt by marriage. Née Balfour, Eleanor was sister to Arthur J. Balfour , who became Prime Minister. She married Henry Sidgwick in...
politics	Marie Belloc Lowndes	The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith 's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country...
Textual Production	Ethel Sidgwick	ES 's Mrs. Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, appeared two years after its subject's death. Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, née Balfour (1845-1936) had been President of Newnham College , Cambridge, from 1892 to 1910. Sidgwick, Ethel. Mrs. Henry Sidgwick. Sidgwick and Jackson. vii

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1882

The Society for Psychical Research was founded with the purpose of conducting objective scientific research into supernatural phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and mediumship.

28 August 1900

Henry Sidgwick , philosopher (and husband of Eleanor Sidgwick , Principal of Newnham College ), died of cancer at his brother-in-law's house in Terling, near Witham, Essex.

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.

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