Girton College, Cambridge University

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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...
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.
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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Her papers at Girton include the unpublished manuscript which she referred to as the Family Chronicle, which describes her early life, but from which the hundred pages dealing with the years 1849-61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...
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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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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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.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
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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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.
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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.
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Reception Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Her papers are at Girton College and elsewhere.
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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