Newnham College, Cambridge University

Following her mother's death, Katharine attended the Collège de France in Paris. In 1874 she took a vacation course in classics at Newnham College, Cambridge , where she was one of the first students.

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.

JEH became a resident lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge ; next year she was offered her first (and Newnham's first) Associate Research Fellowship.

Though she was never appointed to any actual university post, QDL worked with students from many Cambridge colleges during her career. She once candidly defined her teaching as ventriloquist work behind the scenes [achieved] by...

GG became a Special Lecturer and Unofficial Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge ; she held these posts until 1998.

Henry's wife, Eleanor Sidgwick (known in the family as Nora), was therefore her aunt by marriage. Née Balfour, Eleanor was sister to Arthur J. Balfour , who became Prime Minister. She married Henry Sidgwick in...

He had two brothers. He helped direct the education at home of his younger sister, Anne Jemima Clough , who became a major force in education for women and the poor, and was the first...

MAH 's mother, born Daisy Duncan but later called Margaret by her husband, was lovely, but completely uninterested in her own looks. She had been under eleven when her Irish Home Ruler father died...

Frances's mother, Ellen Darwin , a great-niece of the poet Wordsworth , was a Fellow and lecturer in English literature at Newnham College . According to Frances's cousin Gwen Darwin , a later...

Soon after HM arrived at Newnham , she and Harrison began to develop a personal relationship. Frequently corresponding by letter whether they were both present in Cambridge or not, the two formulated an exclusive, fantastic...

Aurelia Plath attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly...

MD 's mother, Marie (Bloor) Drabble , came from a working-class background, was educated at Newnham College , Cambridge, and became a schoolteacher. She was not a very friendly or social person, suffered...

Classics lecturer JEH met her student and later close companion, Hope Mirrlees , at Newnham College , Cambridge .

Philippa attended Newnham College (the women's college founded by the efforts of her parents) and was marked higher than any other final-year student in mathematics at Cambridge in 1890, embarrassing the university since the title...