Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London

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Occupation Willa Muir
After leaving Bedford College , WM began lecturing to Bryant and May female factory workers at the Mansfield House University Settlement in Canning Town in London. It was at the Bryant and May match...
Occupation Helen Waddell
After Oxford (where she gave the lectures which launched her scholarly career), HW applied for various academic jobs, which her biographer Monica Blackett considers it lucky she did not get. (Many of these jobs included...
Occupation Beatrice Harraden
BH undertook various kinds of public service. She sat on the English committee for awarding the Femina Vie Heureuse prize, and became a governor of Bedford College in 1929. During the 1930s she was a...
politics George Eliot
GE was always ambivalent about the struggle for women's rights. This ambivalence may have been fed by the fact that her situation with Lewes made her peculiarly vulnerable to public attack of a personal flavour...
politics Anna Swanwick
AS had the honour of presenting the first lady graduates from Bedford College
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
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to the university chancellor to receive their degrees; they were the first women graduates in Britain.
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
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politics Anna Swanwick
AS became for a five-year term the Visitor to Bedford College : the first female one appointed, in succession to distinguished male scholars.
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
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politics Anna Swanwick
Well before she became a feminist, AS on her first arrival in London became interested in the plight of little girls whose working-class parents kept them at home to mind the baby while their brothers...
politics Anna Swanwick
Before holding the figurehead position of Visitor to Bedford College , she had already served in the capacity of lady visitor (with responsibility to maintain discipline: in effect a chaperone) in the mathematics classes given...
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...
Publishing Eleanor Rathbone
Rathbone's chapter originated as a paper entitled The Harvest of the Women's Movement, which she had delivered at Bedford College in November 1935 as one of the Fawcett Lecture series and printed under the...
Publishing Beatrice Harraden
BH set her name to the earliest of her several letters to the Times, this one together with Hertha Ayrton and Mary Augusta Ward , as an effort to raise money for a building...
Publishing Beatrice Harraden
BH and Elizabeth Robins wrote jointly to the Times Literary Supplement, advocating an extension of the Sussex Hospital for Women and Children and advertising a literary fundraising bazaar to be held in Brighton.
Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, 11 Dec. 1919, p. 750.
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Publishing Beatrice Harraden
BH also wrote for the Bedford College Magazine and the Cheltenham Ladies' College Magazine: for the former in 1915 she described her war-work with the Commission for Relief in Belgium . On 17 June...
Textual Production Anna Swanwick
In May 1898 and in 1899 AS addressed large audiences at the Jubilee ceremonies at both Queen's and Bedford College . On the former occasion she was introduced to Queen Victoria .
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
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Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
In March 1908 BH read a chapter of Ships that Pass in the Night at a concert given by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) .
qtd. in
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001.
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The pen with which she is said...

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