Newnham College, Cambridge
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Newnham College is a women-only constituent college
Colleges of the University of Cambridge
This is a list of the colleges within the University of Cambridge. These colleges are the primary source of accommodation for undergraduates and graduates at the University and at the undergraduate level have responsibility for admitting students and organising their tuition. They also provide...

 of the University of Cambridge
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The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

, England
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.

The college was founded in 1871 by Henry Sidgwick
Henry Sidgwick
Henry Sidgwick was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist. He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research, a member of the Metaphysical Society, and promoted the higher education of women...

, and was the second Cambridge college to admit women after Girton College
Girton College, Cambridge
Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. It was England's first residential women's college, established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon. The full college status was only received in 1948 and marked the official admittance of women to the...

. The co-founder of the college was Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Millicent Fawcett
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, GBE was an English suffragist and an early feminist....

.

History

The progress of women at Cambridge University owes much to the pioneering work undertaken by the philosopher Henry Sidgwick, fellow of Trinity
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

. Lectures for Ladies had been started in Cambridge in 1870 and such was the demand from those who could not travel in and out on a daily basis that in 1871 Sidgwick, one of the organisers of the lectures, rented a house on Regent Street
Regent Street, Cambridge
Regent Street is an arterial street in southeast central Cambridge, England. It runs between St Andrew's Street, at the junction with Park Terrace, to the northwest and Hills Road at the junction with the A603 to the southeast. Regent Terrace runs in parallel immediately to the northeast...

 in which young women attending the lectures could reside. He persuaded Anne Clough
Anne Clough
Anne Jemima Clough was an early English suffragist and a promoter of higher education for women.Clough was born at Liverpool, the daughter of a cotton merchant. She was the sister of Arthur Hugh Clough, the poet and assistant to Florence Nightingale. When two years old she was taken with the rest...

, who had previously run a school in the Lake District, to take charge of this house.

Demand continued to increase and the supporters of the enterprise formed a limited company to raise funds, lease land and build a purpose-built building on it. Newnham Hall opened its doors in 1875 and became the first building on the site off Sidgwick Avenue
Sidgwick Avenue
Sidgwick Avenue is located in western Cambridge, England. It links Grange Road to the west with Queen's Road to the east. The road continues northeast into central Cambridge as Silver Street....

 where Newnham still remains. The demand from prospective students remained buoyant and the Newnham Hall Company built steadily, providing three more Halls, a Laboratory and a Library, in the years up to the first world war.

The architect Basil Champneys
Basil Champneys
Basil Champneys was an architect and author whose more notable buildings include Newnham College, Cambridge, Manchester's John Rylands Library, Mansfield College, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford's Rhodes Building.- Life :...

 was employed throughout this period and designed the buildings in the "Queen Anne" style to much acclaim, giving the main college buildings an extraordinary unity. These and later buildings are grouped around beautiful gardens, which many visitors to Cambridge never discover, and unlike most Cambridge colleges students may walk on the grass for most of the year.

Many young women in mid-nineteenth century England had no access to the kind of formal secondary schooling which would have enabled them to go straight into the same university courses as the young men - Anne Jemima Clough herself was never a pupil in a school. So Newnham's founders allowed the young women to work at and to a level which suited their attainments and abilities. Some of them, with an extra year's preparation, did indeed go on to degree-level work. And as girls' secondary schools were founded in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, staffed often by those who had been to the women's colleges of Cambridge, Oxford and London, the situation began to change. In 1890 the Newnham student Philippa Fawcett
Philippa Fawcett
Philippa Garrett Fawcett was an English mathematician and educationalist.She was the daughter of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett and of Henry Fawcett MP, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge and Postmaster General in Gladstone's government...

 was ranked above the Senior Wrangler i.e. top in the Mathematical Tripos. By the first world war the vast majority of Newnham students were going straight into degree level courses.

In tailoring the curriculum to the students Newnham found itself at odds with the other Cambridge college for women, Girton
Girton College, Cambridge
Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. It was England's first residential women's college, established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon. The full college status was only received in 1948 and marked the official admittance of women to the...

, founded at the same time. Emily Davies, Girton's founder, believed passionately that equality could only be expressed by women doing the same courses as the men, on the same time-table. This meant that Girton attracted a much smaller population in its early years. But the Newnham Council held its ground, reinforced by the commitment of many of its members to educational reform generally and a wish to change some of the courses Cambridge was offering to its men.

Women In The University

The University as an institution at first took no notice of these women and arrangements to sit examinations had to be negotiated with each examiner individually. In 1868 Cambridge's Local Examinations Board (governing non-university examinations) allowed women to take exams for the first time. Concrete change within the university would have to wait until the first female colleges were formed, and following the foundation of Girton College (1869) and Newnham (1872) women were allowed into lectures, albeit at the discretion of the lecturer. By 1881, however, a general permission to sit examinations was negotiated.
A first attempt to secure for the women the titles of their degrees, not just a certificate from their colleges, was rebuffed in 1887 and a second try in 1897 went down to even more spectacular defeat. Undergraduates demonstrating against the women and their supporters did hundreds of pounds worth of damage in the market square.

The first world war brought a catastrophic collapse of fee income for the men's colleges and Cambridge and Oxford both sought state financial help for the first time. This was the context in which the women tried once more to secure inclusion, this time asking not only for the titles of degrees but also for the privileges and involvement in university government that possession of degrees proper would bring. In Oxford this was secured in 1920 but in Cambridge the women went down to defeat again in 1921, having to settle for the titles - the much-joked-about BA tit - but not the substance of degrees. This time the male undergraduates celebrating victory over the women used a handcart as a battering ram to destroy the lower half of the bronze gates at Newnham, a memorial to Anne Jemima Clough.

The women spent the inter-war years trapped on the threshold of the University. They could hold University posts but they could not speak or vote in the affairs of their own departments or of the University as a whole. Finally, in 1948 the women were admitted to full membership of the University, although the University still retained powers to limit their numbers.
National university expansion after the Second World War brought further change. In 1954, a third women's college, New Hall
New Hall, Cambridge
Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded as "New Hall" in 1954, at a time when Cambridge had the lowest proportion of women undergraduates of any university in the United Kingdom, and when only two other colleges admitted women...

, (now Murray Edwards College), was founded. In 1965 the first mixed graduate college, Darwin
Darwin College, Cambridge
Darwin College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.Founded in 1964, Darwin was Cambridge University's first graduate-only college, and also the first to admit both men and women. The college is named after the family of one of the university's most famous graduates, Charles Darwin...

, was founded. The 1970s saw three men's colleges (Churchill
Churchill College, Cambridge
Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.In 1958, a Trust was established with Sir Winston Churchill as its Chairman of Trustees, to build and endow a college for 60 fellows and 540 Students as a national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill; its...

, Clare
Clare College, Cambridge
Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1326, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on "the Backs"...

 and King's
King's College, Cambridge
King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....

) admit women for the first time. Gradually Cambridge was ceasing to be 'a men's university although of a mixed type', as it had been described in the 1920s in a memorably confused phrase. Cambridge now has no all-male colleges and Girton is also mixed. Newnham, New Hall and Lucy Cavendish remain all-female.

With the conversion of the last men-only colleges into mixed colleges in the 1970s and 80s, there were inevitably questions about whether any of the remaining women-only colleges would also change to mixed colleges. The issue again became prominent as women only colleges throughout the rest of the country began admitting men and following the 2007 announcement that Oxford University's
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

 last remaining women-only college, St Hilda's
St Hilda's College, Oxford
St Hilda's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.The college was founded in 1893 as a hall for women, and remained an all-women's college until 2006....

, would admit men, Cambridge is the only university in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 where colleges have admissions policies that discriminate on the basis of gender.

College Arms

Argent
Argent
In heraldry, argent is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures, called "metals". It is very frequently depicted as white and usually considered interchangeable with it...

, on a chevron azure
Azure
In heraldry, azure is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of horizontal lines or else marked with either az. or b. as an abbreviation....

 between in chief two crosses botonny fitchy and in base a mullet sable
Sable
The sable is a species of marten which inhabits forest environments, primarily in Russia from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, in northern Mongolia and China and on Hokkaidō in Japan. Its range in the wild originally extended through European Russia to Poland and Scandinavia...

, a griffin
Griffin
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle...

's head erased
Erasure (heraldry)
Erasure, in the language of heraldry, is the tearing off of part of a charge, leaving a jagged edge of it remaining. In blazons the concept is usually met with in the form of the adjective erased....

 or
Or (heraldry)
In heraldry, Or is the tincture of gold and, together with argent , belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals". In engravings and line drawings, it may be represented using a field of evenly spaced dots...

 between two mascles of the field.


These arms, granted in 1923, were designed by the Revd E.E. Dorling to incorporate charges from the arms of those intimately connected with the founding of the college.

The history of Newnham begins with the formation of the Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Cambridge, in 1869. A house of residence was opened in 1871 in Regent Street where there were five students under the care of Miss A.J. Clough. As the number grew, the community moved first to Merton Hall, then to premises in Bateman Street, and then with the foundation of the Newnham Hall Company in 1875 into what is now the Old Hall of Newnham College.

The college formally came into existence in 1880 with the amalgamation of the Association and the Company. Women were admitted to titles of degrees from 1881. In 1948 Newnham, like Girton, attained the full status of a college of the University.
In the early years of the college Miss A.J. Clough was the principal. She came of the family of Clough of Plas Clough, Denbighshire, which bore: Azure, between three mascles a greyhound's head couped argent. The out-students were under the care of Miss Marion Kennedy. She bore: Argent, a chevron gules between in chief two crosses botonny fitchy sable and in base a boar's head couped sable langued gules - a coat slightly differing from that of Kennedy of Kirkmichael, Ayrshire, which has crosses crosslet fitchy.

The other great benefactors of the college were Mr (later Professor) Henry Sidgwick, and Miss E.M. Balfour, whom he married in 1876. Mrs Sidgwick later became a principal of one of the halls of Newnham College. Their arms were - Sidgwick (assumed arms): Gules, a fess between three griffins' heads erased or; and Balfour (of Balbirnie): Argent, on a chevron engrailed between three mullets sable an otter's head erased argent.

In the college arms the chevron links them with the coats of Balfour and Kennedy, while its colour and the mascles refer to Clough. The crosses come from Kennedy, the mullet from Balfour, and the griffin's head from Sidgwick. No crest was granted, for although a corporate body may have a crest, it was thought that a crest and helm would be inappropriate to one composed entirely of women.

College Life

Set in acres of stunning gardens, Newnham students are spoilt by the views from their decadent rooms which come awash with antiques – writing bureaus, fireplaces, carved dining tables and chests of drawers are common pieces of furniture. And, it is said, the reason that no student need step outside in the rain is due to Basil Champney deliberately designing what has now become the longest continuous indoor corridor in Europe. The laboratory, which can be found near the sports field, now houses a space in which students put on everything from theatre productions and music recitals to art exhibitions.

Alongside a breath-taking formal hall, students at the college now also have a modern buttery in which to eat and relax. This addition to the college was built at the same time as the Grade II* listed 1897 Yates Thompson library, with its beautiful ornamented ceiling, by the addition of the light, airy Horner Markwick building in 2004. The library was originally Newnham students' primary reference source since women were not allowed into the University Library
Cambridge University Library
The Cambridge University Library is the centrally-administered library of Cambridge University in England. It comprises five separate libraries:* the University Library main building * the Medical Library...

. It remains one of the largest college libraries in Cambridge with a strong collection of some 90,000 volumes, including approximately 6,000 rare books. The collection is kept as relevant, up-to-date and useful as possible by the annual purchase of over 1,000 new titles to support undergraduate study in all subjects.

The college attracts a wide range of female students and has two official combination rooms which represent the interests of students in the college and are responsible for social aspects of college life. Undergraduates are members of the Junior Combination Room (JCR) whilst graduate students are members of the Middle Combination Room (MCR).

In 1928, Newnham and Girton Colleges were among the venues for a series of lectures by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....

 which resulted in her book-length essay A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928...

.

Alumnae

See also :Category:Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge


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|1971
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|1955
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|Kate Bertram
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Cicely Kate Bertam was a British academic specialising in fish. Part of the 1930s "Cambridge school" of biologists, she contributed to two seminal reports on freshwater fish in eastern Africa....


|1912
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|Mary Boyce
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|1920
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|Eleanor Bron
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|1938
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A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner...


|1936
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|Ruth Cohen
Ruth Cohen (economist)
Ruth Louisa Cohen was a Cambridge economist.She served as Principal to Newnham College, Cambridge from 1954 until 1972. She studied at Newnham College as an undergraduate in the 1920s. and in 1930 received a Commonwealth Fund fellowship to go to the US. She spent two years at Stanford and Cornell...


|1906
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|Joan Curran
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Lady Joan Strothers Curran was a Welsh scientist. She and her husband, Sir Samuel Curran, played important roles in the defense of the allied forces of World War II.-Biography:...


|1916
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|Nora David
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Nora Ratcliff David, Baroness David was a British Labour Party politician and life peer.Born Nora Ratcliff Blakesley, the daughter of a merchant, she was educated at Ashby-de-la-Zouch Girls' Grammar School and at Saint Felix School, Southwold before going up to Newnham College, Cambridge to study...


|1913
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|Margaret Drabble
|1939
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|Sarah Dunant
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|1950
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|Patricia Duncker
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Patricia Duncker is a British novelist and academic.-Academic career:Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Duncker attended Bedales school in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, read English at Newnham College, Cambridge...


|1951
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|Julie Etchingham
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|1969
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|Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite...


|1920
|1958
|Physical chemist, Crystallographer
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|Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
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|1934
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|Germaine Greer
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|1939
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|Jane Grigson
Jane Grigson
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|1928
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|Patricia Hewitt
Patricia Hewitt
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|1948
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|Patricia Hodgson
Patricia Hodgson
Dame Patricia Anne Hodgson, DBE is the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.-Biography:Following an early stint at the Conservative Party research department , Hodgson worked as a producer and journalist and was a founder-member of the distance learning team at the Open University...


|1947
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|Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire
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, educator and director of the BBC
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Isaline Blew Horner
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|1896
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Pali Text Society
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 president, OBE
Order of the British Empire
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 recipient
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|Elizabeth Jenkins
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|1905
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|Penelope Leach
Penelope Leach
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|1937
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|Jessica Mann
Jessica Mann
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|1937
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|Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes
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|1941
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|Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch is a British music broadcaster who mainly works for BBC Radio 3.Mohr-Pietsch attended Newnham College, Cambridge, reading music from 1998-2001, and undertook an MA at Edinburgh University, subsequently becoming a tutor, a post she retained until 2006...


|1980
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|Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
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|1919
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|Writer
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Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
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|1950
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|Jadwiga Piłsudska
|1920
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|Architect, Pilot
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|Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
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|1932
|1963
|American poet
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|Amber Reeves
Amber Reeves
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|1887
|1981
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|Alison Richard
Alison Richard
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|1948
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|Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge
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|Audrey Richards
Audrey Richards
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|1899
|1984
|Social anthropologist
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|Rosemary Anne Sisson
Rosemary Anne Sisson
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|1923
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|Dramatist, Novelist
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|Alix Strachey
Alix Strachey
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|1892
|1973
|Psychoanalyst
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|Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson
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|1959
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|Actress
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|Constance Tipper
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|1894
|1995
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|Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin
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|1933
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|Writer
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|Michelene Wandor
Michelene Wandor
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|1940
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|Dramatist
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|Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Whitehorn
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|1926
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|Writer
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|Olivia Williams
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|1968
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|Actress
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For details of graduates in mathematics up to 1940 see

Institutions Based On Newnham

Newnham College was the clear conceptual and architectural inspiration for University Women's College at the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
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, Australia (now University College
University College (University of Melbourne)
University College is a residential college which is affiliated to the University of Melbourne in Australia. It was formerly known as University Women's College...

).
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