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Characters Jane Gardam
The stories are set in and around a hotel, formerly an eighteenth-century colonial mansion, in Jamaica at the close of the expensive, fashionable season, and most of them feature English people startled, shocked, or reinvigorated...
Characters Judith Cowper Madan
Though often submissive in attitudes, JCM was capable of satire or lampoon. The Receipt, an Imitation, dating from about 1720, lists the unsavoury ingredients that go to compose a blockhead Cambridge clergyman (as Pope
Characters Frances Browne
The second story, Found in the Far North, is narrated in the first person by a young Cambridge student from Norwich whose failure to heed his father's advice about choosing his company with care...
Characters A. S. Byatt
ASB says that this book and its three successors are about the desirability of an androgynous mind.
qtd. in
Friel, James, and Jenny Newman. “A. S. Byatt”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction through Interviews, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Hodder Headline, 2004, pp. 36-53.
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After opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the story is set in Yorkshire (though...
Cultural formation Mary Agnes Hamilton
While at Cambridge Mary Agnes Adamson (later MAH ) fell in love several times. The experience, to her and her contemporaries, was expressed in highly spiritual and intellectual terms: I remained blankly ignorant about sex...
Education Anna Eliza Bray
At home, she taught herself Italian and also received instruction in Latin from Michael Slegg , a friend of her brother's from Cambridge University .
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, 1990.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
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Education Mary Webb
Mary Meredith (later MW ) attended Cambridge University extension lectures on literature and history, until ill health intervened.
Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth, 1978.
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Education May Sinclair
MS visited Professor Henry Melvill Gwatkin at Cambridge , and was treated to a series of conversations on history, philosophy, and metaphysics which amounted to informal tutorials.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
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Education Kathleen E. Innes
Kathleen Royds (later Innes) received her Teacher's Diploma in Theory (Class I) and Practice, from Cambridge University.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
23-4, 244
Education Q. D. Leavis
She won the Charity Reeves and Thomas Montefiore Prizes to begin her doctoral dissertation, also at Cambridge .
Education Jane Ellen Harrison
JEH was unusual for the time in writing her Tripos examinations: women were not awarded degrees at Cambridge until 1948, and during the 1870s only about twenty percent of Newnham students attempted the degree course...
Education Maggie Gee
MG gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge by Queenie Leavis , whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis
Education Elizabeth von Arnim
May was a strong student. In the Senior Certificate public examination in July 1883 she emerged top in history among pupils at all Ealing schools, and she particularly impressed her examiners with an essay about...
Education Lady Rachel Russell
Mary Berry , who wrote that LRR spent her youth in those occupations which it has been agreed to call the education of females,
Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.
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was misplacing her feminist indignation. It has been said that...
Education Susan Miles
She also attended more than one school in London. Novelist John Cowper Powys (whose lectures she had attended) wrote her a recommendation for a Cambridge scholarship, but she was not successful in gaining one.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

Timeline

1231: Cambridge University was granted its first...

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1231

Cambridge University was granted its first charter, by Henry III .
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Leach, Arthur Francis. Educational Charters and Documents, 598-1909. AMS Press, 1971.
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Cobban, Alan B. The Medieval Universities: Their Development and and Organization. Methuen, 1975.
110, 111

1502: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...

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1502

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (also known as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of the future Henry VII ), endowed the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge University.
Leach, Arthur Francis. Educational Charters and Documents, 598-1909. AMS Press, 1971.
xi
Tibbs, Rodney. The University and Colleges of Cambridge. Terence Dalton Ltd., 1972.
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Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.
146
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “Paraphernalia”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 22, 19 Nov. 2009, pp. 24-5.
24

1534: Henry VIII granted a charter to Cambridge...

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1534

Henry VIII granted a charter to Cambridge University giving the right to set up a printing press: Cambridge University Press , the world's earliest surviving publishing house, printed its first book exactly fifty years later.
Bourne, Stephen. “Introduction to Cambridge University Press”. Cambridge University Press: About the Press.

1575: The University of Leiden was founded as a...

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1575

The University of Leiden was founded as a centre of Protestant learning (as were a number of new Oxford and Cambridge colleges at about this time, with the same religio-political agenda).
Trim, David J. B. “Sir Thomas Bodley and the International Protestant Cause”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1998, pp. 314-40.
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28 October 1636: Harvard College was founded in Cambridge,...

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28 October 1636

Harvard College was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Channing, Edward. A History of the United States. Macmillan, 1905–1932, 6 vols.
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Late 1638: Milton's pastoral elegy Lycidas appeared...

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Late 1638

Milton 's pastoral elegy Lycidas appeared in a volume of Cambridge poems published in memory of Edward King , who had died by drowning.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Milton

18 June 1723-1724: A periodical entitled The Visiter was published...

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18 June 1723-1724

A periodical entitled The Visiter was published in London; it promised its readers to be a friend to them.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
158, 161

1805: The East India Company established a training...

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1805

The East India Company established a training college for civil servants.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
94

1 October 1828: The Cambridge campaign to increase the study...

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1 October 1828

The Cambridge campaign to increase the study of science in universities resulted in the founding of University College, London , which emphasized science; this was the date of the inaugural lecture.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
99
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

1832: The University of Durham was founded....

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1832

The University of Durham was founded.
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
1519
Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
432
Dyhouse, Carol. No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939. UCL Press, 1995.
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1854: The Oxford University Reform Act first allowed...

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1854

The Oxford University Reform Act first allowed Jews to matriculate and take degrees.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
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By 4 March 1854: Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report...

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By 4 March 1854

Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report on the Organization of the Permanent Civil Service.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
98-104

1865: Cambridge University formally admitted female...

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1865

Cambridge University formally admitted female students to Local Examinations, which were the culminating assessment of secondary schooling.
Howarth, Janet, and Emily Davies. “Introduction”. The Higher Education of Women, Hambledon Press, 1988.
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Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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Pedersen, Joyce Senders. The Reform of Girls’ Secondary and Higher Education in Victorian England: A Study of Elites and Educational Change. Garland, 1987.
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October 1865: Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's...

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October 1865

Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's licence through the Society of Apothecaries : this began her medical career, after her rejection by the Universities of London , Edinburgh , St Andrews , Oxford , and Cambridge .
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
156
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
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Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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1871: Cambridge University's celebrated Cavendish...

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1871

Cambridge University 's celebrated Cavendish Laboratory for experimental physics was founded.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
171

Texts

Ceraldi, Gabrielle. “Popish Legends and Bible Truths: English Protestant Identity in Catherine Sinclair’s Beatrice”. Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol.
31
, No. 1, Cambridge University, 2003, pp. 359-72.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.