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Family and Intimate relationships Sylvia Plath
Aurelia Plath attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly...
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Cornford
Frances's father, Francis Darwin , later Sir Francis, was a Cambridge botanist. He had earlier worked as an assistant and secretary to his father, Charles Darwin .
Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
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His niece Gwen thought him the most...
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.
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Family and Intimate relationships William Empson
WE is said to have fallen in love while at Cambridge with members of both sexes. Someone informed on him for possessing condoms (which was then unacceptable to the authorities), and according to his biographer...
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
Virginia Stephen flirted mildly with and received proposals from a number of men, all Cambridge contemporaries of her brother Thoby .
Family and Intimate relationships Emily Brontë
Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school in his teens, became a gentleman's tutor, and finally...
Family and Intimate relationships Ray Strachey
RS 's sister, Karin , was one of the first Freudian psychoanalysts.
Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books.
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She became the first woman at Cambridge to receive a Star, or Distinction, in Philosophy.
Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books.
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She married Adrian Stephen , Virginia Woolf 's younger brother.
Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books.
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Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf was a close Cambridge friend of Virginia's brother Thoby Stephen and a member of the Apostles . A Jew, with family roots in London and Amsterdam, he grew up in London, first...
Family and Intimate relationships Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Millicent Garrett , aged nineteen, married the blind radical MP Henry Fawcett , aged thirty-four, who was also Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
under Henry Fawcett
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray.
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Family and Intimate relationships Marion Moss
Her son Numa Edward Hartog (born on 29 May 1846)
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
successfully challenged the University Tests Act and became an undergraduate at Cambridge . He was Senior Wrangler of his year, meaning that he had the...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
After attending Cambridge University , David Alfred Thomas , Margaret's father, became a Liberal Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
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Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. This Was My World. Macmillan.
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Family and Intimate relationships Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Philippa attended Newnham College (the women's college founded by the efforts of her parents) and was marked higher than any other final-year student in mathematics at Cambridge in 1890, embarrassing the university since the title...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Joscelin
Elizabeth was brought up in the house of her maternal grandfather, William Chaderton , Bishop of Lincoln, until his death in April 1608. He was a learned man, having held various positions at Cambridge University
Family and Intimate relationships Georgette Heyer
He was educated at private schools and at Cambridge University . In the twenty-first century he gave his mother's biographer Lidija Haas free access to her papers.
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head.
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Dixon, Jay. An Appreciation of Georgette Heyer. http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander%20files/dixon.htm.
Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 16, pp. 29-30.
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Family and Intimate relationships Rosamund Marriott Watson
He had attended Cambridge , where he rowed for the University. The first years of their union seem to have been happy.
Hughes, Linda K. “’Fair <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Hymen</span> holdeth hid a world of woes’: Myth and Marriage in Poems by ’Graham R. Tomson’ (Rosamund Marriott Watson)”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 97-120.
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Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press.
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Timeline

2 April 1938: The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised...

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2 April 1938

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised for the first time on the BBC .

1939: Cambridge's first professorship bestowed...

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1939

Cambridge 's first professorship bestowed on a woman, the Chair of Archaeology. was achieved by Dorothy Garrod of Newnham .

6 December 1947: The Senate of Cambridge University unanimously,...

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6 December 1947

The Senate of Cambridge University unanimously, if belatedly, voted to admit women for the first time as full members.

25 May 1951: Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, friends from...

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25 May 1951

Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , friends from their Cambridge days, who had been spying for the Soviet Union from positions of some influence within the British establishment, fled to Russia.

13 February 1956: Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, English spies...

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13 February 1956

Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , English spies who had fled on 25 May 1951 to the Soviet Union (whose undercover agents they had been), gave a press conference which riveted British attention on the...

May 1959: C. P. Snow gave the year's Rede Lecture at...

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May 1959

C. P. Snow gave the year's Rede Lecture at Cambridge University : The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.

1960: Following the recommendations of the Anderson...

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1960

Following the recommendations of the Anderson Report, a national scheme operated by Local Education Authorities supplied grants for all university students, subject to means testing.

10 December 1962: Max Ferdinand Perutz and Sir John Cowdery...

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10 December 1962

Max Ferdinand Perutz and Sir John Cowdery Kendrew from Great Britain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the structures of globular proteins.

1963-4: Of 126,445 full-time university students...

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1963-4

Of 126,445 full-time university students in Britain, 33,809 were women: that is nearly 27% of the total.

By autumn 1963: For the first time most students entering...

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By autumn 1963

For the first time most students entering university in Britain were admitted through the new national entrance scheme administered by UCCA (Universities Central Council on Admissions ).

1963-4: Of 126,445 full-time university students...

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1963-4

Of 126,445 full-time university students in Britain, 33,809 were women: that is nearly 27% of the total.

22 May 1970: A bomb discovered at a police station in...

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22 May 1970

A bomb discovered at a police station in Paddington (following a series of sporadic bomb incidents reaching back over a year) was the first to be (later) attributed to the Angry Brigade.

1972: For the first time women were admitted to...

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1972

For the first time women were admitted to a select few men's colleges at Cambridge University .

1983: Cambridge University's Corpus Christi College...

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1983

Cambridge University 's Corpus Christi College (hitherto all male) admitted women for the first time.

1987: Cambridge University's Magdalene College...

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1987

Cambridge University 's Magdalene College began admitting women undergraduates in this year, the last of the formerly all-male colleges to do so.

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