Newnham College, Cambridge University

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...

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...

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...

Another aunt, Pernel Strachey , was Principal of Newnham College (one of Cambridge 's two colleges for women) from 1923 to 1941.

(Joan) Pernel Strachey (1876-1951) was Tutor, Lecturer in Modern Languages, Vice-Principal, and then from 1923 to 1941 Principal of Newnham College . She hosted Virginia Woolf in October 1928 when Woolf addressed the Newnham Arts Society

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.