Cambridge University

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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 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 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 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 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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Family and Intimate relationships Rosamond Lehmann
Rudolph Lehmann was a writer and poet, one-time editor of the Daily News, a contributor to (and at times editor of) Punch, founder of Granta (Cambridge University 's magazine), and, briefly, a...
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Notley
When the couple's son James was admitted to Cambridge University , his late father was named as gentleman of Combe Sydenham.
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Burney
The next brother, Charles , was expelled from Cambridge University for stealing books from the library, but eventually became respected as a clergyman and a scholar.
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Ellen Harrison
JEH began a close academic and personal relationship with Cambridge classical scholar R. A. Neil . Her later companion Hope Mirrlees suggested that at the time of Neil's death in 1901 these two were engaged.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Ali Smith
AS met her longtime partner Sarah Wood at Cambridge University in the 1980s
Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, pp. 186-29.
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. Wood, now a documentary filmmaker with a focus on the found object, collaborated with Smith on theatrical projects, mounting original...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Drabble
MD 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , also attended Cambridge , and served in the RAF during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour candidate for the Tory seat...
Family and Intimate relationships May Laffan
During his early life John Hartley remained at home (as opposed to the usual middle-class practice of sending sons to boarding school), and the Hartleys at first employed a nursery governess to educate him.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
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Family and Intimate relationships Edith Lyttelton
During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during...
Family and Intimate relationships Hope Mirrlees
Soon after HM arrived at Newnham , she and Harrison began to develop a personal relationship. Frequently corresponding by letter whether they were both present in Cambridge or not, the two formulated an exclusive, fantastic...

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26 January 2009: Cambridge University announced that Anne...

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26 January 2009

Cambridge University announced that Anne Jarvis , former Sub-Librarian, had been appointed its first woman University Librarian .

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