Newnham College, Cambridge University

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.

Temple Bar published AL 's story Between Two Stools, about the difficulties of a Newnham graduate who struggles not to slip back into old frivoous social round.

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

At Brighton High School AL developed a grand passion for headmistress Edith Creak (a recent Cambridge graduate). Frankly I'm more in love with her than ever, she wrote with apparent good cheer to her elder...

During her time at Newnham , AL wrote several stories; her biographer, Linda Hunt Beckman , thinks Euphemia, the only one published, is one of the weaker ones. Lallie and The Doctor each contrasts...

Queenie also was known for her bookish habits: her tastes ran especially to Henry James , along with the journals the New Statesman, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and Time and...

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...

These sister heroines are only two among a large, upper-middle-class family, the Cunninghams: two of the children of the second wife, Mrs Cunningham. Irene, the eldest daughter, reflects how queer it is of her stepmother...

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. She received her BA...

EJ 's next biography, Portrait of an Actor, 1933, took as its subject the Shakespearean actor Edward Alleyn (in whom her interest had been aroused while she was at Cambridge by the teaching of...

In Nairobi, EH attended Miss Seccombe's European school from the age of seven. During the war her parents took her to England and left her, in January 1917, at Belstead School at Aldeburgh...

VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939. Often writing in French, she used her diaries to record and explain her perceptions of daily events and experiences; her entries are sometimes rooted in fact but...

VH 's literary executor was Gerald Henderson , librarian of St Paul's Cathedral . (He was not her first choice: she had approached Dorothy Richardson and Ethel Colburn Mayne .) In 1962, following Henderson's death,...

The Crowded Street critiques the social rules that limited the career and life choices available to surplus women in post-war England. Its heroine, Muriel Hammond, whose mother will not allow her to go...

Six months after JEH 's death, she was commemorated at the inaugural Jane Harrison Lecture, delivered by her colleague and friend Gilbert Murray at Newnham College , Cambridge, where Harrison had studied and taught.