Newnham College, Cambridge University

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...

MAH attended Aberdeen Girls' High School (now known as Harlaw Academy), and then, in Glasgow, a large council secondary school (then called a Board School). She also attended a class in Greek taught by...

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...

GG became a Commonwealth Scholar (which meant she held a prestigious and well-funded award) at Newnham College, Cambridge , UK.

GG 's PhD thesis, The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare 's Early Comedies, was officially approved by Cambridge University .

GG became a Special Lecturer and Unofficial Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge ; she held these posts until 1998.

In 1996 Greer objected to the then all-female Newnham College (of which she was a Fellow) offering a Fellowship to the physicist and astronomer Rachael Padman , a fellow Australian and a transsexual through medical...

At nineteen Katharine Conway entered Newnham College , Cambridge, by then in its fifteenth year, where she completed the BA course, though Cambridge did not yet award degrees to women.

The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with...

The novel centres on the cross-class relationship between Margaret Ayrton, a gardener's daughter, and Harry Burne, owner of the estate at which Margaret's father works. When Margaret wins a scholarship to study at Newnham College

Constance Black (later CG ) went up to Newnham College, Cambridge , a scholarship of £35 a year for the three years of her degree course; her father paid the other £25 a year. She...

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...

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...

Following her mother's death, Katharine attended the Collège de France in Paris. In 1874 she took a vacation course in classics at Newnham College, Cambridge , where she was one of the first students.

Elaine Cooklin (later EF ) received her BA in English Literature from Newnham College, Cambridge , where she had held an Open Exhibition.