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death | Mary Somerville | After her death, much of MS
's library was presented to the Ladies' College at Hitchin (now Girton College
, Cambridge), and in 1879 Somerville College
at Oxford University was named after her. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16. 212 |
death | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | She left £10,000 to Girton College
. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985. 189 |
Education | Dora Russell | Dora Black
(later Russell
) studied modern languages and history at Girton College
. She graduated BA with First Class Honours, although as a woman she was not allowed at this date actually to take... |
Education | Q. D. Leavis | Queenie Roth (later QDL
) began her university career by going up to Girton College
on a scholarship. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995. 85-6 |
Education | Sarojini Naidu | Sarojini Chattopadhyaya
(later SN
) continued her studies at English universities, first King's College, London
, and then Girton College, Cambridge
. Sengupta, Padmini. Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. Asia Publishing House, 1966. 28, 32 Naidu, Sarojini. “Introduction and Notes”. Sarojini Naidu, Selected Letters 1890s to 1940s, edited by Makarand Paranjape, Kali for Women, 1996, p. Various pages. viii, 1n2, 35-7 |
Education | Q. D. Leavis | At about the time she was married QDL
began her three years' doctoral work on fiction of popular culture at Girton College, Cambridge
, as an Ottolie Hancock Research Fellow. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995. 101 |
Education | Romer Wilson | RW
studied law at Girton College, Cambridge
. Her results in final examinations gave her only mediocre honors. qtd. in Seymour-Smith, Martin, and Andrew C. Kimmens, editors. World Authors, 1900-1950. H. W. Wilson, 1996. |
Education | Dora Russell | Back in England, she was tutored by her father in Greek and Latin; her reading of the Medea by Euripides
later informed her first book, Hypatia; or, Woman and Knowledge. Dora then earned a... |
Education | Dora Russell | After finishing her degree course at Girton College
, Dora Black
(later Russell
) studied French, and eighteenth-century French literature in particular, at University College, London
. She did her work mainly in the British Museum |
Education | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
went up to Girton College, Cambridge University
, on a scholarship to read English Literature, joining her elder sister, Helen, who was already there. Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. 1st ed., St Martin’s Press, 1992. 7 Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002. 39 |
Education | Kathleen Raine | KR
attended, on a full scholarship, Girton College, Cambridge
, where she set out to study natural sciences. She took the exams qualifying her for a BA degee, however (followed by the standard unearned MA)... |
Education | Rosamond Lehmann | |
Education | Ada Leverson | AL
was educated at home in French, German, and (by a Girton College
graduate) Classics. |
Education | Candia McWilliam | After finishing at St George's, she sought to go to boarding school as a means of escape, and following a rupture and detachment from my father's house she entered Sherborne School for Girls
, an... |
Education | Henrietta Müller | In her late twenties, HM
became one of the first batch of students to study at Girton College
, Cambridge, despite some opposition from her father
. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001. 428 Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. New Press, 1995. 164-5 |
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