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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
's Mrs. Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, appeared two years after its subject's death. Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, née Balfour
(1845-1936) had been President of Newnham College
, Cambridge, from 1892 to 1910. Sidgwick, Ethel. Mrs. Henry Sidgwick. Sidgwick and Jackson. vii |
Author summary | Ethel Sidgwick | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | |
Education | Ali Smith | After completing her studies at Aberdeen, Smith began working towards a doctorate at Newnham College, Cambridge (still a women-only body). Continuing her work on the area of her MLitt, she determined to focus on the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Strachey | Another aunt, Pernel Strachey
, was Principal of Newnham College
(one of Cambridge
's two colleges for women) from 1923 to 1941. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File. 278 |
Education | Ray Strachey | After attending Kensington High School
, Ray Costelloe (later RS
) completed a degree course in mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge. (Women were not actually awarded Cambridge degrees until 1947.) Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books. 199, 238 |
politics | Ray Strachey | RS
also quickly became involved in Newnham College
's support for The Cause of women. Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books. 238 |
politics | Anna Swanwick | 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... |
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 | 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 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | VW
delivered one of her two papers, Women and Fiction (later revised to become A Room of One's Own), at Newnham College
, Cambridge. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press. 3: 199 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf |
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