Newnham College, Cambridge University

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...

EF wrote her first novel at about twelve, on loose paper which she then stapled together. She called it The Gatecrashers. As an undergraduate at Newnham , she wrote a novel about the...

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...

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...

Because the play was staged out of term, women were able to participate. Jane Harrison (who knew Frances well, and had been an intimate friend of her mother) recruited several women from Newnham College as...

In October 1928 VW addressed in turn the students of the two Cambridge women's colleges: first Newnham , then Girton . She developed these lectures on women and writing into A Room of One's Own...

When she began lecturing against female suffrage, she got a poor reception at the Cambridge women's colleges, Newnham and Girton , and it strained her relationship with Somerville College.

Six of her Slade Lectures became her first scholarly publication. AB was later elected a fellow of New Hall, Cambridge , and also of King's College , London University.

A meeting was held in MGF 's drawing-room in Cambridge to discuss university lectures to be given for women: the result was the founding of the residential college for women, Newnham College , which occurred in 1871.

Henry Sidgwick organised the meeting. He invited the Cambridge university dons, as well as the wives and daughters of University men living in the town of Cambridge. Lectures began the next term, and MGF was...

In 1868 JB (as president of the organization from 1867 until around 1871) presented its petition for the examination of women candidates for entrance to Cambridge University . The petition was granted in 1869, and...

After returning to England in June 1916, Harrison resumed her research and teaching (soon including Old Slavonic, Polish, Arabic, and Spanish) at Newnham College . About now she was also made a Justice of the Peace.

ASB is an Associate of Newnham College and a member of the Board of Creative and Performing Arts . In the past, she has also been a member of the Social Effects of Television Advisory Group, BBC

The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore...

RS also quickly became involved in Newnham College 's support for The Cause of women.