Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
Newnham College, Cambridge University
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | A. S. Byatt | |
| Education | Michelene Wandor | Michelene Samuels (later MW
) received her BA in English from Newnham College, Cambridge
. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Education | Michael Field | Following her mother's death, Katharine
attended the Collège de France
in Paris. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Prins, Yopie. “Greek Maenads, Victorian Spinsters”. Victorian Sexual Dissidence, edited by Richard Dellamora, University of Chicago Press, pp. 43-81. 44 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Education | Mary Augusta Ward | Mary Augusta Arnold (later MAW
) attended the school for girls at Ambleside run by Anne Clough
(later first Principal of Newnham
). Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 15 |
| Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | Encouraged by Mary Paley
, one of Newnham College
's first students, JEH
took and passed the Cambridge University
Examination for Women. She finished as top candidate and received a scholarship from Newnham. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 33-4 |
| Education | Elspeth Huxley | In Nairobi, EH
attended Miss Seccombe's European school from the age of seven. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 46 |
| Education | Amber Reeves | AR
then went up to Newnham College
, Cambridge, to study Moral Sciences (that is to say philosophy). She took a double first Honours BA (meaning that she took a first on both parts... |
| Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
completed her studies in classics at Newnham College, Cambridge
(on a scholarship) by sitting the Classical Tripos exams. She was one of the early women at Cambridge, one of thirteen in her year. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 34, 38-9,53 |
| Education | Elizabeth Jenkins | Then, during the years 1924-7, EJ
studied at Newnham College, Cambridge
. She realised the value of this education at the time, but not so profoundly as she did later. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 18 |
| Education | Constance Garnett | 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... |
| death | Mathilde Blind | She left the greater part of her estate to Newnham College
, Cambridge, to support female education through the establishment of a scholarship for Language and Literature. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Cultural formation | Emma Frances Brooke | For one of her intensely religious background to attend a secular or ecumenical institution shows some strength of mind. Although the students were expected to inform the Principal of the place of worship they chose... |
| Characters | Katharine Bruce Glasier | 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... |
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