On her entrance to Newnham (as the youngest student in her year), Katharine Conway was awarded a Clothworkers' Scholarship in classics.
Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971.
61
She was a respectable, not outstanding, student, easily eclipsed scholastically by the brilliant...
Family and Intimate relationships
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF
's only child, her daughter Philippa
, was born in the year after her marriage.
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
39
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Philippa Garrett Fawcett
Family and Intimate relationships
Isabella Ormston Ford
Emily, born five years ahead of Isabella in 1850, attended the Slade School of Art
in the late 1870s and became a painter well-known in the Leeds community. Like IOF
, she also became a...
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 Features
George Bernard Shaw
Mrs Warren's daughter Vivie Warren, a classic New Woman character, is based in part on Millicent Garrett Fawcett
's daughter Phillipa
, who had recently placed first in mathematics at Newnham College
. Her mother's...
Textual Features
Judith Kazantzis
Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...
Timeline
early June 1890: Philippa Fawcett of Newnham College, Cambridge,...
Building item
early June 1890
Philippa Fawcett
of Newnham College, Cambridge
, was placed above the Senior Wrangler in the university's mathematics results.
McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
57-9, 102
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1593
Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
22 and n20
Kazantzis, Judith, editor. Women in Revolt: the fight for emancipation: a collection of contemporary documents. Cape, 1968.