Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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death | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | She left £10,000 to Girton College
. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 189 |
death | Mary Somerville | After her death, much of MS
's library was presented to the Ladies' College at Hitchin (now Girton College
, Cambridge), and in 1879 Somerville College
at Oxford University was named after her. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16. 212 |
Education | Sheila Kaye-Smith | |
Education | Henrietta Müller | HM
took a third in the moral science tripos at Girton College
, Cambridge. A third means a third-class honours or one level above a passdegree: respectable but not particularly distinguished. In thiscase taking... |
Education | Q. D. Leavis | Queenie Roth (later QDL
) began her university career by going up to Girton College
on a scholarship. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 85-6 |
Education | Sarojini Naidu | Sarojini Chattopadhyaya
(later SN
) continued her studies at English universities, first King's College, London
, and then Girton College, Cambridge
. Sengupta, Padmini. Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. Asia Publishing House. 28, 32 Naidu, Sarojini. “Introduction and Notes”. Sarojini Naidu, Selected Letters 1890s to 1940s, edited by Makarand Paranjape, Kali for Women, p. Various pages. viii, 1n2, 35-7 |
Education | Q. D. Leavis | At about the time she was married QDL
began her three years' doctoral work on fiction of popular culture at Girton College, Cambridge
, as an Ottolie Hancock Research Fellow. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 101 |
Education | Romer Wilson | RW
studied law at Girton College, Cambridge
. Her results in final examinations gave her only mediocre honors. Seymour-Smith, Martin, and Andrew C. Kimmens, editors. World Authors, 1900-1950. H. W. Wilson. |
Education | Kathleen Raine | KR
attended, on a full scholarship, Girton College, Cambridge
, where she set out to study natural sciences. She took the exams qualifying her for a BA degee, however (followed by the standard unearned MA)... |
Education | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
went up to Girton College, Cambridge University
, on a scholarship to read English Literature, joining her elder sister, Helen, who was already there. Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press. 7 Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 39 |
Education | Rosamond Lehmann | |
Education | Margaret Forster | Having sat the Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams at her school in Carlisle (taking the gamble of an extra term at school after her A-levels to do so, though if she failed to make Oxbridge... |
Education | Ada Leverson | AL
was educated at home in French, German, and (by a Girton College
graduate) Classics. |
Education | Dora Russell | Dora Black
(later Russell
) studied modern languages and history at Girton College
. She graduated BA with First Class Honours, although as a woman she was not allowed at this date actually to take... |
Education | Candia McWilliam | After finishing at St George's, she sought to go to boarding school as a means of escape, and following a rupture and detachment from my father's house she entered Sherborne School for Girls
, an... |
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