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Wealth and Poverty Georgette Heyer
After her father's death, GH became financially responsible for her mother and her brothers. Under this pressure her output of fiction increased. She helped support Frank during his studies at Cambridge , and continued to...
Wealth and Poverty George Eliot
GE spent £5,000 establishing, with the help of Henry Sidgwick and Michael Foster , a three-year studentship in physiology at Cambridge in memory of Lewes , open equally to men and women.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
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Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Travel Hope Mirrlees
After completing her studies at Cambridge , HM embarked for France and Italy with her Newnham College friend Karin Costelloe .
Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Virginia Woolf
This work is not so much a diary as a working notebook: its seven sketches take events or issues from VW ' life as grist to (in Doris Lessing 's words) five-finger exercises for future...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Augusta Webster
Many of her essays dealt with women's issues and many were topical. University Degrees for Women (2 June 1877) and University Examinations for Women (2 and 9 February 1878) responded respectively to Parliament 's refusal...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rose Macaulay
This was the first full-length critical work on Forster. It expressed admiration for his writing, but some amusement or impatience over what it presents as his obsession with Englishness and with the all-male educational world...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
In 2013 GG sold her archives (student notes and essays, scripts for the CambridgeFootlights Society , literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, a handmade book designed for her friend Gay Clifford , and professional and...
Textual Production Ann Jebb
The reform that would introduce annual exams at Cambridge University was already AJ 's subject as well as her husband's: she had addressed it in the Whitehall Evening Post. The pamphlet generally ascribed to...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
This suggests that QDL had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge (through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...
Textual Production Anita Brookner
This originated as a series of lectures for the Courtauld Institute , developed into six of AB 's Slade Lectures at Cambridge , and thence into a monograph. The title came from Zola.
McNay, Michael. “Anita Brookner obituary”. theguardian.com.
Since...
Textual Production Ann Jellicoe
AJ published Some Unconscious Influences in the Theatre, a booklet of criticism based on the annual Judith Wilson Lecture she gave at Cambridge University the same year.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Dix, Carol. “Ann Jellicoe (interview)”. The Guardian, p. 10.
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Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
As co-editor, contributor (of nearly fifty pieces), and administrator, QDL was one of the dominant forces behind Scrutiny, the literary journal founded by her husband , herself, and their students, and based at Cambridge
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
IM published her novel An Accidental Man, which features both political and personal moral dilemmas, and is dedicated to her Cambridge philosopher friend Kreisel .
Fletcher, John, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing.
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Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research.
14: 557
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
This character (considerably altered in transplanting) was not the novel's only ingredient from life. Its central episode was suggested by the trial for manslaughter of an actual Cambridge undergraduate who had killed two elderly women...
Textual Production Melesina Trench
MT sent a copy of this work (now very rare, like everything she published during her lifetime) to her friend Mary Leadbeater .
Leadbeater, Mary, and Mary Cunningham. The Annals of Ballitore, 1766-1824. Editor McKenna, John, Stephen Scroop.
102-3
Copies are owned by the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Timeline

1231: Cambridge University was granted its first...

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1231

Cambridge University was granted its first charter, by Henry III .

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.

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.

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).

28 October 1636: Harvard College was founded in Cambridge,...

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28 October 1636

Harvard College was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Late 1638: Milton's pastoral elegy Lycidas appeared...

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Late 1638

Milton 's pastoralelegyLycidas appeared in a volume of Cambridge poems published in memory of Edward King , who had died by drowning.

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.

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

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1805

The East India Company established a training college for civil servants.

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.

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

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1832

The University of Durham was founded.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

1871: Newnham College for women was founded in...

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1871

Newnham College for women was founded in Cambridge.

Texts

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