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 | Q. D. Leavis | Queenie also was known for her bookish habits: her tastes ran especially to Henry James
, along with the journals the New Statesman, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and Time and... |
| 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 | Amy Levy | AL
became the first Jewish woman to study at Newnham Hall (later College)
(or indeed at Cambridge University), at a time when women of any kind as undergraduates were a novel phenomenon. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000. 37, 137 Pullen, Christine. The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy. Kingston University Press, 2010. 158 |
| Education | Germaine Greer | GG
became a Commonwealth Scholar (which meant she held a prestigious and well-funded award) at Newnham College, Cambridge
, UK. Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books, 1999. 109 |
| 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 | Ali Smith | After completing her studies at Aberdeen, Smith began working towards a doctorate at Newnham College, Cambridge (still a women-only body). Continuing her work on the area of her MLitt, she determined to focus on the... |
| Education | Germaine Greer | GG
's PhD thesis, The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare
's Early Comedies, was officially approved by Cambridge University
. Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books, 1999. 117n22 |
| Education | Amy Levy | The school was one of these only recently set up by the Girls' Public Day School Company
. It also took younger boys, and two of Amy's brothers attended with her. The headmistress, Edith Creak |
| 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 | 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Education | Michael Field | Following her mother's death, Katharine
attended the Collège de France
in Paris. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| 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 |
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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