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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Girton College, Cambridge University
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Emily Davies | The manuscript, held by Girton College, Cambridge
, is discussed below. |
| Textual Production | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
's papers are held at Girton College, Cambridge
. Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. 511 |
| Textual Features | Amy Levy | Based on George MacDonald
's fairy-tale Double-Story, it concerns a princess who has everything except happiness. It is written with panache: the governess is named Girton
ia to signify the excellence of her education... |
| Residence | Dora Russell | On leave from her work at Girton College
, Dora Black
(later Russell
) took an extended research trip to Paris. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1: 77 |
| Reception | Emily Davies | Her papers at Girton
include the unpublished manuscript which she referred to as the Family Chronicle, which describes her early life, but from which the hundred pages dealing with the years 1849-61 (present when... |
| Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | These were just her top honours among many. She appeared on radio and tv programmes, acquired an honorary degree from the University of Leeds
and an honorary fellowship from Girton
, and officially opened the... |
| Reception | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Her papers are at Girton College
and elsewhere. |
| Reception | P. D. James | She received an impressive number of honours from various universities. She had an Honorary DLitt from the Universities of Buckingham (1992), London (1993), Hertfordshire (1994), Glasgow (1995), Durham (1998), and Portsmouth (1999). She also had... |
| Publishing | Sarah Waters | While she was working on her thesis, SW
also produced several academic articles. A Girton
Girl on a Throne: Queen Christina
and Versions of Lesbianism, 1906-1933 appeared in Feminist Review in 1994, The Most... |
| Publishing | Emily Shirreff | Throughout her career ES
composed articles for several journals including the Contemporary Review, Fraser's Magazine, and the Fortnightly Review. Her article College Education for Women appeared in August 1870 and Schools of... |
| politics | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Though MBE
attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association
presided over by Karl Marx
, she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt... |
| politics | George Eliot | GE
was always ambivalent about the struggle for women's rights. This ambivalence may have been fed by the fact that her situation with Lewes made her peculiarly vulnerable to public attack of a personal flavour... |
| politics | Christina Rossetti | CR
, despite her poor health and her disavowal of the role of political poet, was keenly interested in political events and connected herself with contemporary political movements in a range of ways. Her father's... |
| politics | Emily Davies | Girton College
was formally constituted through the adoption of its Memorandum and Articles of Association. This year ED
was appointed Mistress of the college (which was still at Hitchin). Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 266-7 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. xi |
| politics | Emily Davies | The women's college
established and headed by ED
moved from Hitchin to Girton, a parish about two miles outside Cambridge. Spender, Dale, editor. The Education Papers. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 278-9 |
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