Girton College, Cambridge University

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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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Her papers at Girton include the unpublished manuscript which she referred to as the Family Chronicle, which describes her early life, but from which the hundred pages dealing with the years 1849-61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.
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.
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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...
Textual Production Mary Frere
Late in life MF seems, from her sister's account, to have been working at writing something about the Hebrew language and early biblical texts. She formed gradually some theories,
Frere, Georgina, and Herbert Loewe. “Biographical Notice”. Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish MSS. in the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge, Girton College, p. v - xii.
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which ill health prevented her...
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...

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