Newnham College, Cambridge University

Oliver Strachey , like a number of Strachey men, worked with the East India Company . His second wife was Rachel (Ray) Costelloe , Newnham College graduate, women's rights activist, and author, best known for...

CS 's sister Ida shared her acting talent and her feminist principles, but her interests diverged from those of Constance when, after holding the first science scholarship at Newnham , she decided on a career...

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...

ASB 's mother, Kathleen Marie (Bloor) Drabble , was a schoolteacher and a graduate of Newnham College , Cambridge.

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...

Henry Sidgwick , philosopher and founder of Newnham College, Cambridge , was ES 's uncle.

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...

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...

While living in Paris, Mirrlees and Harrison entertained visitors who included HM 's mother (widowed in 1924), and Virginia and Leonard Woolf . The two women were acquainted with Edith Wharton , Dorothy (Strachey)

While at Newnham College , EFB began her acquaintance with Charlotte Mary Martin , later Charlotte Wilson , a forceful young bluestocking with a similar growing dissatisfaction about the political beliefs that she was exposed...

Distinguished guests at Newnham at this time included Ruskin and Turgenev ; JEH recalls giving them tours of the college in her Reminiscences of a Student's Life. A great admirer of George Eliot

Another classics student, Jessie (Crum) Stewart , travelled with Harrison to meet Wilhelm Dörpfield in Greece in 1901, and maintained a friendship with her mentor after leaving Newnham which lasted until Harrison's death.

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...

However, JEH 's most famous and explicit reappearance is in Virginia Woolf 's A Room of One's Own, a text which evolved from a series of lectures that Woolf—Harrison's friend, admirer, and publisher—gave at...

MB spent a great deal of time at Cambridge, where she visited the Regius Professor of Medicine, Dr Clifford Allbutt , and fixed on Newnham College as the institution to which she would bequeath her fortune.