Newnham College, Cambridge University

In Nairobi, EH attended Miss Seccombe's European school from the age of seven. During the war her parents took her to England and left her, in January 1917, at Belstead School at Aldeburgh...

Mary Augusta Arnold (later MAW ) attended the school for girls at Ambleside run by Anne Clough (later first Principal of Newnham ).

AR then went up to Newnham College , Cambridge, to study Moral Sciences (that is to say philosophy). She took a double first Honours BA (meaning that she took a first on both parts...

JEH became a resident lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge ; next year she was offered her first (and Newnham's first) Associate Research Fellowship.

Though she was never appointed to any actual university post, QDL worked with students from many Cambridge colleges during her career. She once candidly defined her teaching as ventriloquist work behind the scenes [achieved] by...

GG became a Special Lecturer and Unofficial Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge ; she held these posts until 1998.

Aurelia Plath attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly...

MD 's mother, Marie (Bloor) Drabble , came from a working-class background, was educated at Newnham College , Cambridge, and became a schoolteacher. She was not a very friendly or social person, suffered...

Classics lecturer JEH met her student and later close companion, Hope Mirrlees , at Newnham College , Cambridge .

Philippa attended Newnham College (the women's college founded by the efforts of her parents) and was marked higher than any other final-year student in mathematics at Cambridge in 1890, embarrassing the university since the title...

(Joan) Pernel Strachey (1876-1951) was Tutor, Lecturer in Modern Languages, Vice-Principal, and then from 1923 to 1941 Principal of Newnham College . She hosted Virginia Woolf in October 1928 when Woolf addressed the Newnham Arts Society

Another aunt, Pernel Strachey , was Principal of Newnham College (one of Cambridge 's two colleges for women) from 1923 to 1941.

Oliver Strachey , like a number of Strachey men, worked with the East India Company . His second wife was Rachel (Ray) Costelloe , Newnham College graduate, women's rights activist, and author, best known for...

CS 's sister Ida shared her acting talent and her feminist principles, but her interests diverged from those of Constance when, after holding the first science scholarship at Newnham , she decided on a career...

At Brighton High School AL developed a grand passion for headmistress Edith Creak (a recent Cambridge graduate). Frankly I'm more in love with her than ever, she wrote with apparent good cheer to her elder...