MS
's scientific library was given to Girton College
, Cambridge.
Swindells, Julia. “Other People’s Truths? Scientific Subjects in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville</span>”;. Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, pp. 96-108.
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Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ
's correspondence is scattered. The Huntington Library
has six letters; others are located in the collections of her recipients, such as the Bessie Rayner Parkes papers at Girton College
and the Lovelace papers at...
Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, p. ix - xii, xix-lv.
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Q. D. Leavis
She published several more pieces in the same journal, the last in September 1925, just before she went up to Girton College
: A Street Orator, The Philosophy of Examinations, The Dream Pedlar...
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Helen Blackburn
HB
's personal archive of pamphlets, suffrage society papers, and the sources she chiefly worked from, survives at Girton College, Cambridge
, and has been filmed in 29 reels by Primary Source Media
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blackburn, Helen. “Helen Blackburn Archive”. Primary Source Microfilm: Voices of the Women’s Movement, 1850-1900.
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Kathleen Raine
KR
gave a Founders' Memorial Lecture at Girton College
, Cambridge, entitled Blake
and England.
Raine, Kathleen. Blake and England. W. Heffer and Son.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
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Vernon Lee
Though she subordinates it to her attack on English aestheticism, Lee also mounts a critique on associated hetero- and homosexual practices of the time. Anne soon rejects the amorous intentions of Richard, whose passion was...
Wealth and Poverty
Mary Frere
Her wealth at death was £4702 12s. 1d. In her will she left the munificent bequest
Loewe, Herbert. Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish MSS. in the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge. Girton College.
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of her collection of ancient Semitic and Jewish manuscripts (including interesting marriage contracts) to Girton College, Cambridge
...
Wealth and Poverty
Catherine Cookson
That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure...
Wealth and Poverty
Emily Davies
A committee struck to commemorate the jubilee of ED
's involvement in women's education presented her with seven hundred guineas (which she donated to Girton College
) and an address from over 1,300 subscribers.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
HB
bequeathed her library to Girton College
, Cambridge, in memory of Lydia Becker
and Caroline Ashurst Biggs
. The collection was presented to the library in a mahogany bookcase which she designed herself...
Wealth and Poverty
George Eliot
With the publication of Middlemarch at the end of 1872, GE
reached the ranks of the wealthy. She invested in modern enterprises like canals, railways, and gas companies, and also gave a good deal of...