Newnham College, Cambridge University

He had two brothers. He helped direct the education at home of his younger sister, Anne Jemima Clough , who became a major force in education for women and the poor, and was the first...

MAH 's mother, born Daisy Duncan but later called Margaret by her husband, was lovely, but completely uninterested in her own looks. She had been under eleven when her Irish Home Ruler father died...

Frances's mother, Ellen Darwin , a great-niece of the poet Wordsworth , was a Fellow and lecturer in English literature at Newnham College . According to Frances's cousin Gwen Darwin , a later...

Soon after HM arrived at Newnham , she and Harrison began to develop a personal relationship. Frequently corresponding by letter whether they were both present in Cambridge or not, the two formulated an exclusive, fantastic...

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...

While at Newnham College , EFB began her acquaintance with Charlotte Mary Martin , later Charlotte Wilson , a forceful young bluestocking with a similar growing dissatisfaction about the political beliefs that she was exposed...

Distinguished guests at Newnham at this time included Ruskin and Turgenev ; JEH recalls giving them tours of the college in her Reminiscences of a Student's Life. A great admirer of George Eliot

Another classics student, Jessie (Crum) Stewart , travelled with Harrison to meet Wilhelm Dörpfield in Greece in 1901, and maintained a friendship with her mentor after leaving Newnham which lasted until Harrison's death.

While living in Paris, Mirrlees and Harrison entertained visitors who included HM 's mother (widowed in 1924), and Virginia and Leonard Woolf . The two women were acquainted with Edith Wharton , Dorothy (Strachey)

However, JEH 's most famous and explicit reappearance is in Virginia Woolf 's A Room of One's Own, a text which evolved from a series of lectures that Woolf—Harrison's friend, admirer, and publisher—gave at...

EJ 's next biography, Portrait of an Actor, 1933, took as its subject the Shakespearean actor Edward Alleyn (in whom her interest had been aroused while she was at Cambridge by the teaching of...

MGF was painted several times. The National Portrait Gallery has a portrait of her and her husband by Ford Madox Brown , commissioned by family friend and politician Sir Charles Dilke and painted in 1874...