Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
318, 341-2
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Occupation | Emily Davies | Following a dispute over governance, ED
resigned as Honorary Secretary and Executive Committee member of Girton College
, and ceased to be actively involved in its affairs. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 318, 341-2 |
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. 355 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Davies | At Gateshead, ED
began life-long friendships with Annie Crow
(later Austin) and Jane Crow
(from 1848), and Elizabeth Garrett
(later Anderson), from 1854. No letters from her to Anderson survive, although a number from Anderson... |
Occupation | Emily Davies | |
Textual Production | Emily Davies | The manuscript, held by Girton College, Cambridge
, is discussed below. 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. xx |
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include the unpublished manuscript which she referred to as the Family Chronicle, which describes her early life, but from which the hundred pages dealing with the years 1849-61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... |
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... |
Occupation | Jessie Boucherett | In addition to collaborating in the establishment of Girton College
, JB
also financed the Commercial School for Girls
, where twenty women at a time were taught the rudiments of clerical work for office jobs. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 232n4 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
met Phoebe Sarah (Hertha) Marks
, a Girton
student who became like a daughter to her. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 184 |
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 |
Reception | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Her papers are at Girton College
and elsewhere. |
Occupation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
helped Emily Davies
to found Girton College
, which was of but not in Cambridge, the first step towards a women's college at one of the ancient English universities. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 173 Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, p. vi, 354 pp. 273 |
Wealth and Poverty | Helen Blackburn | 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... |
Textual Production | 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. |
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... |
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