Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908.
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, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | After seven months studying at the University of Kiel
, Mary Agnes Adamson (later Hamilton)
entered Newnham College, Cambridge
, on a Mathilde Blind Scholarship, an award set up by the distinguished writer
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
| Education | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Having failed to find an intelligent balance between work and play,FMM
disappointed herself and worried her father by graduating from Newnham College, Cambridge
, with only a third-class degree. Morgan, Janet. “Introduction: The Squire’s Daughter”. The Rector’s Daughter, Virago, 1987, p. v - xii. xii |
| 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 |
| Education | Flora Macdonald Mayor | But FMM
in 1892 managed to get into Newnham College, Cambridge
, to read history, while Alice returned home to spend her days practising the piano and drawing in order to make a good marriage.... |
| Education | Elaine Feinstein | Elaine Cooklin (later EF
) received her BA in English Literature from Newnham College, Cambridge
, where she had held an Open Exhibition. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books, 1985. 115 |
| Education | A. S. Byatt | Antonia Drabble (later ASB
) gained her BA (English) with honours from Newnham College
, Cambridge. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. |
| Education | Michelene Wandor | Michelene Samuels (later MW
) received her BA in English from Newnham College, Cambridge
. Michelene Wandor. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
attended Aberdeen Girls' High School
(now known as Harlaw Academy), and then, in Glasgow, a large council secondary school (then called a Board School). She also attended a class in Greek taught by... |
| Education | Michael Field | Following her mother's death, Katharine
attended the Collège de France
in Paris. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Prins, Yopie. “Greek Maenads, Victorian Spinsters”. Victorian Sexual Dissidence, edited by Richard Dellamora, University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 43 -81. 44 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
| 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. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 15 |
| 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 | 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... |
Timeline
1871
Newnham College
for women was founded in Cambridge.
1882
A Hygienic Wearing Apparel Exhibition was held at Kensington Town Hall.
early June 1890
Philippa Fawcett
of Newnham College, Cambridge
, was placed above the Senior Wrangler in the university's mathematics results.
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.
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.
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.
1939
Cambridge
's first professorship bestowed on a woman, the Chair of Archaeology. was achieved by Dorothy Garrod
of Newnham
.