Newnham College, Cambridge University

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)

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.

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...

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...

MGF was painted several times. The National Portrait Gallery has a portrait of her and her husband by Ford Madox Brown , commissioned by family friend and politician Sir Charles Dilke and painted in 1874...