Girton College, Cambridge University

BLSB helped Emily Davies to found Girton College , which was of but not in Cambridge, the first step towards a women's college at one of the ancient English universities.

Some time after her husband died, MGF was offered the position of Mistress of Girton ; she declined, saying that she had no attention to spare except for the suffrage struggle.

One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and George Eliot . She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies...

ES began her term as headmistress of Emily Davies 's Girton College (at that time known as Hitchin College); she held the position for less than a year.

In addition to collaborating in the establishment of Girton College , JB also financed the Commercial School for Girls , where twenty women at a time were taught the rudiments of clerical work for office jobs.

Thus MF achieved her aim of forming the nucleus of a library to be a help and inspiration for students who wanted to gain a true knowledge of Holy Writ, and encouraging students at...

Her sister identified the reason that she left this position: she was confronted with a persistent opposition to her influence and views concerning governance of the institution.ES did however, remain a member of...

Following a dispute over governance, ED resigned as Honorary Secretary and Executive Committee member of Girton College , and ceased to be actively involved in its affairs.

In October 1928 VW addressed in turn the students of the two Cambridge women's colleges: first Newnham , then Girton . She developed these lectures on women and writing into A Room of One's Own...

ED , as Mistress of Girton from 1872 to 1875, and later as its Honorary Secretary, remained closely involved in the fundraising and administration of the College after its founding. She kept up the pressure...

When she began lecturing against female suffrage, she got a poor reception at the Cambridge women's colleges, Newnham and Girton , and it strained her relationship with Somerville College.

Though MBE attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association presided over by Karl Marx , she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt...

GE was always ambivalent about the struggle for women's rights. This ambivalence may have been fed by the fact that her situation with Lewes made her peculiarly vulnerable to public attack of a personal flavour...

AS helped found Somerville College, Oxford , and Girton College, Cambridge .

The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore...