Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
38, 60
Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick
Standard Name: Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Hamilton writes that tertiary education for women at the time was still on its trial; |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | Henry's wife, Eleanor Sidgwick
(known in the family as Nora), was therefore her aunt by marriage. Née Balfour, Eleanor was sister to Arthur J. Balfour
, who became Prime Minister. She married Henry Sidgwick in... |
| politics | Marie Belloc Lowndes | The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith
's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country... |
| Textual Production | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
's Mrs. Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, appeared two years after its subject's death. Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, née Balfour
(1845-1936) had been President of Newnham College
, Cambridge, from 1892 to 1910. Sidgwick, Ethel. Mrs. Henry Sidgwick. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1938. vii |
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1882: The Society for Psychical Research was founded...
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1882
The Society for Psychical Research
was founded with the purpose of conducting objective scientific research into supernatural phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and mediumship.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
195-7
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
102
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
125
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
389-90
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
143
“Society for Psychical Research”. Monstrous.com: Ghosts.
28 August 1900: Henry Sidgwick, philosopher (and husband...
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28 August 1900
Henry Sidgwick
, philosopher (and husband of Eleanor Sidgwick
, Principal of Newnham College
), died of cancer at his brother-in-law's house in Terling, near Witham, Essex.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
262
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...
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1926
New statutes at Cambridge University
first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
328
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Girton College”. British History Online, 2012.
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