Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Newnham College, Cambridge University
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College
who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with... |
| Cultural formation | Emma Frances Brooke | For one of her intensely religious background to attend a secular or ecumenical institution shows some strength of mind. Although the students were expected to inform the Principal of the place of worship they chose... |
| death | Mathilde Blind | She left the greater part of her estate to Newnham College
, Cambridge, to support female education through the establishment of a scholarship for Language and Literature. 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, 1990. |
| Education | Mary Augusta Ward | Mary Augusta Arnold (later MAW
) attended the school for girls at Ambleside run by Anne Clough
(later first Principal of Newnham
). Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 15 |
| Education | Amber Reeves | AR
then went up to Newnham College
, Cambridge, to study Moral Sciences (that is to say philosophy). She took a double first Honours BA (meaning that she took a first on both parts... |
| Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | Encouraged by Mary Paley
, one of Newnham College
's first students, JEH
took and passed the Cambridge University
Examination for Women. She finished as top candidate and received a scholarship from Newnham. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001. 33-4 |
| Education | Margaret Drabble | MD
received a BA in English with double first-class honours from Cambridge University
(Newnham College
). Sadler, Lynn Veach. Margaret Drabble. Twayne, 1986. 4 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. 192 |
| Education | Elspeth Huxley | In Nairobi, EH
attended Miss Seccombe's European school from the age of seven. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002. 46 |
| Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
completed her studies in classics at Newnham College, Cambridge
(on a scholarship) by sitting the Classical Tripos exams. She was one of the early women at Cambridge, one of thirteen in her year. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001. 34, 38-9,53 |
| Education | Elizabeth Jenkins | Then, during the years 1924-7, EJ
studied at Newnham College, Cambridge
. She realised the value of this education at the time, but not so profoundly as she did later. qtd. in Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004. 18 |
| Education | Michelene Wandor | Michelene Samuels (later MW
) received her BA in English from Newnham College, Cambridge
. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. 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, 1990. |
| Education | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
, then in her late twenties, was attending Newnham College
(then in its inaugural year and occupying Merton Hall in Cambridge), as one of its eight pioneering female students. Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 2, 2003, pp. 153-68. 156 Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press, 1971. 163 Clough, Blanche Athena. A Memoir of Anne Jemima Clough. Edward Arnold, 1897. 155 Anonymous,. “Woman and Home: Miss Emma Brooke, the Author of ‘A Superfluous Woman’”. The North American, 31 May 1895, p. 6. (31 May 1895): 6 |
| Education | Katharine Bruce Glasier | At nineteen Katharine Conway
entered Newnham College
, Cambridge, by then in its fifteenth year, where she completed the BA course, though Cambridge did not yet award degrees to women. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 61, 63 |
| Education | Emma Frances Brooke | Newnham College
opened in September 1871 with Anne Jemima Clough
as its principal, and with five pioneering students: Mary Paley (later Marshall
, who encouraged Jane Ellen Harrison
to follow her to Newnham), Edith Creak |
| Education | Ray Strachey | After attending Kensington High School
, Ray Costelloe (later RS
) completed a degree course in mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge. (Women were not actually awarded Cambridge degrees until 1947.) Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books, 1980. 199, 238 |
Timeline
1871: Newnham College for women was founded in...
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1871
Newnham College
for women was founded in Cambridge.
McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
57-9
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1593
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
114
1882: A Hygienic Wearing Apparel Exhibition was...
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1882
A Hygienic Wearing Apparel Exhibition was held at Kensington Town Hall.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
185-6
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
138
early June 1890: Philippa Fawcett of Newnham College, Cambridge,...
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early June 1890
Philippa Fawcett
of Newnham College, Cambridge
, was placed above the Senior Wrangler in the university's mathematics results.
McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
57-9, 102
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1593
Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
22 and n20
Kazantzis, Judith, editor. Women in Revolt: the fight for emancipation: a collection of contemporary documents. Cape, 1968.
28 August 1900: Henry Sidgwick, philosopher (and husband...
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28 August 1900
Henry Sidgwick
, philosopher (and husband of Eleanor Sidgwick
, Principal of Newnham College
), died of cancer at his brother-in-law's house in Terling, near Witham, Essex.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
262
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Late October 1921: Following the vote against full membership...
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Late October 1921
Following the vote against full membership of Cambridge University
for women, female students had to enter lectures through mobs of barracking male students.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
53
“Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: A Chronology”. University of Cambridge.
Birch, Dinah. “Little was expected of Annie”. London Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2006, p. 26.
26
1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...
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1926
New statutes at Cambridge University
first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
328
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Girton College”. British History Online, 2012.
1939: Cambridge's first professorship bestowed...
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1939
Cambridge
's first professorship bestowed on a woman, the Chair of Archaeology. was achieved by Dorothy Garrod
of Newnham
.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
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