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A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge (Paperback)
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A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge
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To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of Newnham
College, the second Cambridge college to offer university education
to women, its Council asked Alice Gardner to write this short
history, published in 1921. Gardner (1854-1927) had gone up to
Newnham in 1876: she had achieved the highest history degree in her
year (though she was not allowed to graduate), and went on to a
distinguished teaching career in Cambridge and Bristol. The book
describes 'the idea of Newnham', which arose from supporters of
female education in the mid-nineteenth century, the parallel
trajectory of the founders of Girton College, and the small
beginning of what became Newnham, with five students in a house
overlooking Parker's Piece in 1871. Gardner takes the story up to
1914 (with a short epilogue), ending with the hypothesis, 'If
Newnham ever becomes a College of the University ...', a status
eventually achieved in 1948.
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