| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Somerville | 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. 108 |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| 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include the unpublished manuscript which she referred to as the Family Chronicle, which describes her early life, but from which the hundred pages dealing with the years 1849-61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 | Anna Swanwick | The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore... |
| politics | Anna Kingsford | She lectured to organizations, societies, and schools, including the highly heterodox Zetetical Society
, the Sunday Lecture Society
, and the pioneering women students at Girton College
, Cambridge. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers. 91-3, 101 |
| politics | Henrietta Müller | After her studies at Girton
, Henrietta Müller
established herself as an political activist devoted to the social advancement of women. Independently wealthy with no need to earn her living, she was able to pursue... |
| 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... |
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