Newnham College, Cambridge University

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Education Gillian Allnutt
GA was awarded her Honours BA degree in Philosophy and English at the end of her three years' study at Newnham College , Cambridge.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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.
Education Gillian Allnutt
From Rutherford High School for GirlsGA won a place at Newnham College , Cambridge.
Leisure and Society Mathilde Blind
MB spent a great deal of time at Cambridge, where she visited the Regius Professor of Medicine, Dr Clifford Allbutt , and fixed on Newnham College as the institution to which she would bequeath her fortune.
Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, pp. 1-43.
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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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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.
She was buried in Finchley Cemetery in...
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.
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, No. 2, pp. 153-68.
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Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press.
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Clough, Blanche Athena. A Memoir of Anne Jemima Clough. Edward Arnold.
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Anonymous,. “Woman and Home: Miss Emma Brooke, the Author of ‘A Superfluous Woman’”. The North American, p. 6.
(31 May 1895): 6
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
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...
Friends, Associates Emma Frances Brooke
While at Newnham College , EFB began her acquaintance with Charlotte Mary Martin , later Charlotte Wilson , a forceful young bluestocking with a similar growing dissatisfaction about the political beliefs that she was exposed...
Occupation Anita Brookner
Six of her Slade Lectures became her first scholarly publication. AB was later elected a fellow of New Hall, Cambridge , and also of King's College , London University.
Sadler, Lynn Veach. Anita Brookner. Twayne.
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Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
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Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
(Joan) Pernel Strachey (1876-1951) was Tutor, Lecturer in Modern Languages, Vice-Principal, and then from 1923 to 1941 Principal of Newnham College . She hosted Virginia Woolf in October 1928 when Woolf addressed the Newnham Arts Society
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
Oliver Strachey , like a number of Strachey men, worked with the East India Company . His second wife was Rachel (Ray) Costelloe , Newnham College graduate, women's rights activist, and author, best known for...
Occupation Josephine Butler
In 1868 JB (as president of the organization from 1867 until around 1871) presented its petition for the examination of women candidates for entrance to Cambridge University . The petition was granted in 1869, and...
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.
Family and Intimate relationships A. S. Byatt
ASB 's mother, Kathleen Marie (Bloor) Drabble , was a schoolteacher and a graduate of Newnham College , Cambridge.
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. A.S. Byatt. Twayne.
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Myer, Valerie Grosvenor. Margaret Drabble: A Reader’s Guide. St Martin’s Press.
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Occupation A. S. Byatt
ASB is an Associate of Newnham College and a member of the Board of Creative and Performing Arts . In the past, she has also been a member of the Social Effects of Television Advisory Group, BBC

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1871: Newnham College for women was founded in...

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1871

Newnham College for women was founded in Cambridge.

1882: A Hygienic Wearing Apparel Exhibition was...

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1882

A Hygienic Wearing Apparel Exhibition was held at Kensington Town Hall.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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