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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Bessie Rayner Parkes | |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Yonge | CY
found it easy to compose at speed: the story goes that she would work on three new pieces simultaneously: a page of one, a page of the second, a page of the third, in... |
| Textual Production | Mary Somerville | MS
's scientific library was given to Girton College
, Cambridge. Swindells, Julia. “Other Peoples Truths? Scientific Subjects in the Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary SomervilleWomens Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 96-108. 108 |
| Textual Production | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
's correspondence is scattered. The Huntington Library
has six letters; others are located in the collections of her recipients, such as the Bessie Rayner Parkes papers at Girton College
and the Lovelace papers at... |
| Textual Production | Mary Frere | Late in life MF
seems, from her sister's account, to have been working at writing something about the Hebrew language and early biblical texts. She formed gradually some theories, Frere, Georgina, and Herbert Loewe. “Biographical Notice”. Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish MSS. in the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge, Girton College, 1916, p. v - xii. vii |
| Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | VW
travelled to Cambridge with Vita Sackville-West
to deliver a second Women and Fiction paper at Girton College
. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols. 3: 199 |
| Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | She published several more pieces in the same journal, the last in September 1925, just before she went up to Girton College
: A Street Orator, The Philosophy of Examinations, The Dream Pedlar... |
| Textual Production | Emily Davies | The manuscript, held by Girton College, Cambridge
, is discussed below. Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. ix - xii, xix-lv. xx |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | Though she subordinates it to her attack on English aestheticism, Lee also mounts a critique on associated hetero- and homosexual practices of the time. Anne soon rejects the amorous intentions of Richard, whose passion was... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Helen Blackburn | HB
bequeathed her library to Girton College
, Cambridge, in memory of Lydia Becker
and Caroline Ashurst Biggs
. The collection was presented to the library in a mahogany bookcase which she designed herself... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham
, Girton
, and Somerville College
s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College
and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women |
| Wealth and Poverty | George Eliot | With the publication of Middlemarch at the end of 1872, GE
reached the ranks of the wealthy. She invested in modern enterprises like canals, railways, and gas companies, and also gave a good deal of... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Cookson | That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Mary Frere | Her wealth at death was £4702 12s. 1d. In her will she left the munificent bequest Loewe, Herbert. Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish MSS. in the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge. Girton College, 1916. ii |
| Wealth and Poverty | Emily Davies | A committee struck to commemorate the jubilee of ED
's involvement in women's education presented her with seven hundred guineas (which she donated to Girton College
) and an address from over 1,300 subscribers. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927. 355 |
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