Newnham College, Cambridge University

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...

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...

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. She was buried in Finchley Cemetery in...

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.

GG became a Commonwealth Scholar (which meant she held a prestigious and well-funded award) at Newnham College, Cambridge , UK.

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.

GG 's PhD thesis, The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare 's Early Comedies, was officially approved by Cambridge University .

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

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

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...

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 .

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.

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.)

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....

Elaine Cooklin (later EF ) received her BA in English Literature from Newnham College, Cambridge , where she had held an Open Exhibition.