Newnham College, Cambridge University

EF returned to the genre of short biography by contributing (with Margaret Drabble , Claire Tomalin , and others) to Breaking Bounds: Six Newnham Lives, published by Newnham College in 2014. She wrote on...

ES 's Mrs. Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, appeared two years after its subject's death. Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, née Balfour (1845-1936) had been President of Newnham College , Cambridge, from 1892 to 1910.

MAH published Newnham : An Informal Biography, where the word biography is loosely applied to the story of an institution.

JEH 's extensive archive at Newnham College, Cambridge , was deposited there by her companion Hope Mirrlees .

VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939. Often writing in French, she used her diaries to record and explain her perceptions of daily events and experiences; her entries are sometimes rooted in fact but...

VW delivered one of her two papers, Women and Fiction (later revised to become A Room of One's Own), at Newnham College , Cambridge.

VH 's literary executor was Gerald Henderson , librarian of St Paul's Cathedral . (He was not her first choice: she had approached Dorothy Richardson and Ethel Colburn Mayne .) In 1962, following Henderson's death,...

Sandeep Parmar , the first scholar to draw on the Mirrlees Archive at Newnham College, Cambridge , published her edition of HM 's Collected Poems.

The novel centres on the cross-class relationship between Margaret Ayrton, a gardener's daughter, and Harry Burne, owner of the estate at which Margaret's father works. When Margaret wins a scholarship to study at Newnham College

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...

After completing her studies at Cambridge , HM embarked for France and Italy with her Newnham College friend Karin Costelloe .

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

Retirement from Newnham left JEH with an annual pension of £50. Though initially reluctant about the scheme, she accepted a fund of £325 contributed by friends, former students, and other supporters.