New College for Men and Women

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Hannah Cullwick
During this period (as well as undertaking the wide reading mentioned above) HC attended evening classes at the Working Women's College , in French, literature, biology, and physiology.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
264
Family and Intimate relationships Hannah Cullwick
She was thirty-nine years old when they married, and he forty-four.
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
318
Munby's family knew neither of Hannah nor of the marriage until after his death.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
188
The marriage was childless. There is some dispute...
Occupation Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Its first teacher was Elizabeth Whitehead , later the founder of the Working Women's College . Its eighty pupils included Catholics, Jews, Unitarians, and freethinkers. The school, which was heavily subsidised by Smith and cost...
Occupation Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
The school ran for ten years. On its demise, Smith donated the equipment to Elizabeth Malleson 's Working Women's College .
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
63-4

Timeline

1842
People's College , the first Working Men's College in England, opened in Sheffield; it also admitted women.
October 1864
The Working Women's College opened in Queen Street, London.
October 1864
The Working Women's College opened in Queen Street, London.
12 October 1874
The College for Working Women was established in Fitzroy Street in London.