Newnham College, Cambridge University

The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with...

For one of her intensely religious background to attend a secular or ecumenical institution shows some strength of mind. Although the students were expected to inform the Principal of the place of worship they chose...

She left the greater part of her estate to Newnham College , Cambridge, to support female education through the establishment of a scholarship for Language and Literature. She was buried in Finchley Cemetery in...

AL became the first Jewish woman to study at Newnham Hall (later College) (or indeed at Cambridge University), at a time when women of any kind as undergraduates were a novel phenomenon.

GG became a Commonwealth Scholar (which meant she held a prestigious and well-funded award) at Newnham College, Cambridge , UK.

Elaine Cooklin (later EF ) received her BA in English Literature from Newnham College, Cambridge , where she had held an Open Exhibition.

After completing her studies at Aberdeen, Smith began working towards a doctorate at Newnham College, Cambridge (still a women-only body). Continuing her work on the area of her MLitt, she determined to focus on the...

GG 's PhD thesis, The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare 's Early Comedies, was officially approved by Cambridge University .

The school was one of these only recently set up by the Girls' Public Day School Company . It also took younger boys, and two of Amy's brothers attended with her. The headmistress, Edith Creak

Antonia Drabble (later ASB ) gained her BA (English) with honours from Newnham College , Cambridge.

Following her mother's death, Katharine attended the Collège de France in Paris. In 1874 she took a vacation course in classics at Newnham College, Cambridge , where she was one of the first students.

After seven months studying at the University of Kiel , Mary Agnes Adamson (later Hamilton) entered Newnham College, Cambridge , on a Mathilde Blind Scholarship, an award set up by the distinguished writer .

Having failed to find an intelligent balance between work and play,FMM disappointed herself and worried her father by graduating from Newnham College, Cambridge , with only a third-class degree.

Constance Black (later CG ) went up to Newnham College, Cambridge , a scholarship of £35 a year for the three years of her degree course; her father paid the other £25 a year. She...

But FMM in 1892 managed to get into Newnham College, Cambridge , to read history, while Alice returned home to spend her days practising the piano and drawing in order to make a good marriage....