Newnham College, Cambridge University

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...

MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional...

ES wrote early twentieth-century novels of which the earlier ones are ambitious and highly literary, the later ones in general longer and more romantic in tone, set within the confines and structure of the family...

Temple Bar published AL 's story Between Two Stools, about the difficulties of a Newnham graduate who struggles not to slip back into old frivoous social round.

MGF published her first magazine article, The Education of women of the middle and upper classes, in Macmillan's Magazine, discussing lectures for women in Cambridge (the germ of Newnham College ).

The Hogarth Press printed, for private circulation only, ER 's Portrait of a Lady, or The English Spirit Old and New, a memoir of Elizabeth Yates Thompson , the shy philanthropist daughter of publisher...

This volume was reprinted by Newnham in 2002.

Six months after JEH 's death, she was commemorated at the inaugural Jane Harrison Lecture, delivered by her colleague and friend Gilbert Murray at Newnham College , Cambridge, where Harrison had studied and taught.

Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University . Cambridge University awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford

After completing her studies at Newnham and school-teaching for a single term in Oxford, JEH settled in London.

Though still attached to Newnham College , Cambridge , JEH settled for some time in Paris with her former student Hope Mirrlees .

The Crowded Street critiques the social rules that limited the career and life choices available to surplus women in post-war England. Its heroine, Muriel Hammond, whose mother will not allow her to go...

Mrs Warren's daughter Vivie Warren, a classic New Woman character, is based in part on Millicent Garrett Fawcett 's daughter Phillipa , who had recently placed first in mathematics at Newnham College . Her mother's...

These sister heroines are only two among a large, upper-middle-class family, the Cunninghams: two of the children of the second wife, Mrs Cunningham. Irene, the eldest daughter, reflects how queer it is of her stepmother...

HM worked all through her later years on a biography of Jane Harrison . She never completed it, partly from indecision as to how much of Harrison's private life to reveal. The text is now...