Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London

She then taught ethics and philosophy at Bedford College —rather briefly, for she decided that teaching was not her metier, and resigned to become a full-time writer.

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...

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...

AS had the honour of presenting the first lady graduates from Bedford College to the university chancellor to receive their degrees; they were the first women graduates in Britain.

AS became for a five-year term the Visitor to Bedford College : the first female one appointed, in succession to distinguished male scholars.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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) . The pen with which she is said...

The copyright statement of this book was dated 1896, the preface September 1896, and the title-page 1897. It does not appear to have been published in Britain. Preface and dedication are signed by Harraden's co-author