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61, 63
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Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Ormston Ford | Emily, born five years ahead of Isabella in 1850, attended the Slade School of Art
in the late 1870s and became a painter well-known in the Leeds community. Like IOF
, she also became a... |
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... |
Occupation | Constance Garnett | Following the successful completion of her studies, Constance Black (later CG
) was appointed as a lecturer in classical studies at Newnham College
. However, it was only a single-term appointment and she soon began... |
Education | Katharine Bruce Glasier | At nineteen Katharine Conway
entered Newnham College
, Cambridge, by then in its fifteenth year, where she completed the BA course, though Cambridge did not yet award degrees to women. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 61, 63 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The novel centres on the cross-class relationship between Margaret Ayrton, a gardener's daughter, and Harry Burne, owner of the estate at which Margaret's father works. When Margaret wins a scholarship to study at Newnham College |
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. 109 |
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. 117n22 |
Employer | Germaine Greer | GG
became a Special Lecturer and Unofficial Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge
; she held these posts until 1998. Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press. |
politics | Germaine Greer | In 1996 Greer objected to the then all-female Newnham College
(of which she was a Fellow) offering a Fellowship to the physicist and astronomer Rachael Padman
, a fellow Australian and a transsexual through medical... |
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/. |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
published Newnham
: An Informal Biography, where the word biography is loosely applied to the story of an institution. O’Malley, Ida. “The Meaning of Newnham to Women”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1776, p. 128. 128 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Author summary | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's mother, born Daisy Duncan
but later called Margaret by her husband, was lovely, but completely uninterested in her own looks. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 11-12 |
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... |
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