Newnham, established in 1871 as a house in which young women could reside while attending lectures in Cambridge, was in 1971 one of the university's only three all-female colleges. (Since then Girton has begun to...
Literary responses
Margaret Forster
Salley Vickers
wrote of Forster's novel: The power of women to enfranchise other women is movingly done.
Vickers, Salley. “Painting the World Away”. Guardian Unlimited, 1 Apr. 2006.
Susann Cokal
in the New York Times Sunday Book Review called it an apparently simple yet potent work...
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Texts
Vickers, Salley. “Painting the World Away”. Guardian Unlimited.