Girton College, Cambridge University

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Occupation Marion Moss
One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and George Eliot . She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies...
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.
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Occupation Emily Davies
ED , as Mistress of Girton from 1872 to 1875, and later as its Honorary Secretary, remained closely involved in the fundraising and administration of the College after its founding. She kept up the pressure...
Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
When she began lecturing against female suffrage, she got a poor reception at the Cambridge women's colleges, Newnham and Girton , and it strained her relationship with Somerville College.
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.
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Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, p. vi, 354 pp.
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Occupation Virginia Woolf
In October 1928 VW addressed in turn the students of the two Cambridge women's colleges: first Newnham , then Girton . She developed these lectures on women and writing into A Room of One's Own...
Occupation Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Some time after her husband died, MGF was offered the position of Mistress of Girton ; she declined, saying that she had no attention to spare except for the suffrage struggle.
Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, pp. 184-02.
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Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Emily Shirreff
ES began her term as headmistress of Emily Davies 's Girton College (at that time known as Hitchin College); she held the position for less than a year.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
140
Occupation Mary Frere
Thus MF achieved her aim of forming the nucleus of a library to be a help and inspiration for students who wanted to gain a true knowledge of Holy Writ,
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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and encouraging students at...
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.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
Occupation Emily Shirreff
Her sister identified the reason that she left this position: she was confronted with a persistent opposition to her influence and views concerning governance of the institution.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
140
ES did however, remain a member of...
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.
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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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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.
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politics Anna Swanwick
AS helped found Somerville College, Oxford , and Girton College, Cambridge .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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...

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