Girton College, Cambridge University

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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, 1987, pp. 208-16.
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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, 1985.
189
Education Henrietta Müller
In her late twenties, HM became one of the first batch of students to study at Girton College , Cambridge, despite some opposition from her father .
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001.
428
Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. New Press, 1995.
164-5
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 Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS badly wanted to go to university, and begged her father to send her to Girton , but . . . he thought it would be too much for the highly-strung little daughter so dear...
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 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 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, 1995.
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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, 1966.
28, 32
Naidu, Sarojini. “Introduction and Notes”. Sarojini Naidu, Selected Letters 1890s to 1940s, edited by Makarand Paranjape, Kali for Women, 1996, 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, 1995.
101
Education Dora Russell
Back in England, she was tutored by her father in Greek and Latin; her reading of the Medea by Euripides later informed her first book, Hypatia; or, Woman and Knowledge. Dora then earned a...
Education Romer Wilson
RW studied law at Girton College, Cambridge . Her results in final examinations gave her only mediocre honors.
qtd. in
Seymour-Smith, Martin, and Andrew C. Kimmens, editors. World Authors, 1900-1950. H. W. Wilson, 1996.
Education Dora Russell
After finishing her degree course at Girton College , Dora Black (later Russell ) studied French, and eighteenth-century French literature in particular, at University College, London . She did her work mainly in the British Museum
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. 1st ed., St Martin’s Press, 1992.
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Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
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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)...

Timeline

16 October 1869: Educational reformer Emily Davies welcomed...

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16 October 1869

Educational reformer Emily Davies welcomed the first five students to Girton College .
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
180
McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
62, 67
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1594
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
113

16 October 1869: Educational reformer Emily Davies welcomed...

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16 October 1869

Educational reformer Emily Davies welcomed the first five students to Girton College .
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
180
McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
62, 67
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1594
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
113

July 1873: Emily Shirreff outlined the purpose and goals...

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July 1873

Emily Shirreff outlined the purpose and goals of Girton College in the Fortnightly Review in an effort to raise funds.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
183

October 1873: Girton College moved to a site near Camb...

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October 1873

Girton College moved to a site near Cambridge.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
180, 182

1882: A Hygienic Wearing Apparel Exhibition was...

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1882

A Hygienic Wearing Apparel Exhibition was held at Kensington Town Hall.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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23 March 1899: The first paper presented to the Institution...

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23 March 1899

The first paper presented to the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) by a woman was read by Hertha Ayrton , who was later admitted as the Institution's first female member.
Jones, Claire. “Women’s History Month: Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923): scientist yet ’in every way a woman’”. Women’s History Network Blog, 23 Mar. 2010.

By 27 September 1905: Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published...

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By 27 September 1905

Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published the first of two scientific books co-authored with her husband, William Henry Young : The First Book of Geometry.
Young, Grace Chisholm, and William Henry Young. The First Book of Geometry. J. M. Dent, 1905.

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.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
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“Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: A Chronology”. University of Cambridge.
Birch, Dinah. “Little was expected of Annie”. London Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2006, p. 26.
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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.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
328
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Girton College”. British History Online, 2012.

: An Oxford University women's rowing crew...

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Summer 1927

An Oxford University women's rowing crew beat one from Girton, Cambridge —not by racing, which was deemed medically dangerous for delicate women, but by a separate, timed test.
Reeves, Marjorie. St. Anne’s College, Oxford. St Anne’s College, 1979.
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1935: Helena Swanwick (suffragist, pacifist, sister...

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1935

Helena Swanwick (suffragist, pacifist, sister of artist Walter Sickert ) published her memoir I Have Been Young.
Doughan, David. email to Women’s History Network. 11 Dec. 2009.

1967: Barbara Wootton (created the first woman...

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1967

Barbara Wootton (created the first woman life peer in 1958) became deputy speaker of the House of Lords , first woman to sit on the woolsack
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
in an institution which she saw as democratically indefensible...

1977: Girton, one of the two original women's colleges...

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1977

Girton , one of the two original women's colleges at Cambridge University, admitted its first male Fellows. Male undergraduates joined them two years later.
“About Girton College”. Girton College, University of Cambridge.

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