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Education | Constance Garnett | Constance Black (later CG
) went up to Newnham College, Cambridge
, a scholarship of £35 a year for the three years of her degree course; her father paid the other £25 a year. She... |
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 | 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. 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 | Hope Mirrlees | HM
studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge
, under the charismatic scholar Jane Harrison
. Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press, 2000. 132-5 |
Education | Gillian Allnutt | From Rutherford High School for GirlsGA
won a place at Newnham College
, Cambridge. |
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 | Richmal Crompton | She turned down the offer of a place at Newnham, Cambridge
, because of the scholarship offer from Royal Holloway. |
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. |
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