Cambridge University: Girton College Library and Archive
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Girton College
Huntingdon Road
Cambridge
England
CB3 0JG
Telephone: 01223 338 897
Fax: 01223 339 890
Email: archive@girton.cam.ac.uk
Open: M-F 9.15-4.45 (closed 1-2)
Closed: Easter, 2 weeks in late Summer, and over the Christmas and New Year period
- Book in advance
- Wheelchair access
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Identification requirements: proof of identity and a letter of introduction are required
ARCHON code: 271
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Organisations (6)
- Cambridge University: Girton College Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Cambridge Women's Liberation Group Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Girton College Working Women's Summer School Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- London Association of Schoolmistresses London
- London School Board London
- Society for Promoting the Training of Women
Persons (55)
- Arnold, Matthew, (1822-1888), poet and critic
- Bakst, Leon, (1866-1924), painter and designer
- Baring, Maurice, (1874-1945), journalist and author
- Bell, Sir Thomas Hugh, (1844-1931), 2nd Baronet Yorkshire industrialist and politician
- Berenson, Bernard, (1865-1959), art critic
- Berenson, Mary Logan Costelloe, (1864-1945), art historian and author
- Bishop, Rosemary Stevenson, (1936-2003)
- Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, (1827-1891), artist and women's activist
- Butler, Kathleen Teresa Blake, (1883-1950), Educationist
- Cam, Helen Maud, (1885-1968), historian
- Cave, Frances Evelyn Cave-Brown-, (1876-1965), mathematician
- Crews, Cynthia Mary, (1906-1969), linguist
- Cross, Mary Ann, (1819-1880), novelist and poet Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Davies, Sarah Emily, (1830-1921), suffragist and promoter of higher education for women
- Duke, Alison, (1915-2005), classicist
- Fegan, Ethel Sophia, (1877-1975), librarian
- Fitzgerald, Edward, (1809-1883), poet and translator
- Fletcher-Moulton, Sylvia, (1902-1989), magistrate
- Freeman, Gwendolen, (b1908), author and journalist
- Gamble, Jane Catherine, (1810-1885), writer
- Goldsmid, Anna Maria, (1805-1889), Philanthropist
- Graham, Aelfrida Catherine Wetenhall Tillyard, (1883-1959), writer
- Howitt, Mary, (1799-1888), writer
- James, Phyllis Dorothy White, (1920-2014), Baroness James of Holland Park, author
- Jameson, Anna Brownell, (1794-1860), author
- le Poer Power, Eileen Edna, (1889-1940), historian
- le Poer Power, Rhoda Dolores, (1890-1957), broadcaster and childrens writer
- Lehmann, Hermann, (1910-1985), German biochemist
- Lewis, Beryl, (1896-1992), teacher
- Littler, Shirley, (b1932), civil servant
- Lowndes, Marie Adelaide, (1868-1947), novelist
- MacColl, Dugald Sutherland, (1859-1948), painter and museum administrator
- Manning, Elizabeth Adelaide, (1828-1905), social reformer
- Markham, Violet Rosa, (1872-1959), Liberal activist and public servant
- Marshall, Dorothy, (1900-1994), historian
- Maxted, Anna Sarah, (b 1969), author
- McMorran, Helen Isabella, (1898-1985), librarian Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Metcalfe, Fanny, (1829-1897), headmistress
- Montefiore, Hugh William, (1920-2005), Bishop of Birmingham
- Needham, Dorothy Mary Moyle, (1896-1987), biochemist
- Newall, Dame Bertha Surtees, (1877-1932), educationist
- Parkes, Bessie Rayner, (1829-1925), suffragist, journalist London;Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Parkes, Elizabeth Rayner, (1829-1925), campaigner for women's rights and journalist
- Parkes, Joseph, (1796-1865), election agent and reformer
- Phillpotts, Dame Bertha, (1877-1932), see Newall Dame Bertha Surtees
- Procter, Adelaide Ann, (1825-1864), poet called Adelaide Procter and Mary Berwick
- Procter, Anne Benson, (1799-1888), writer
- Procter, Chrystabel Prudence Goldsmith, (1894-1982), horticulturalist
- Seeley, Sir John Robert, (1834-1895), Knight, historian
- Strong, Eugenie, (1860-1943), archaeologist and art historian
- Strong, Sandford Arthur, (1863-1904), orientalist and art historian
- Woolf, Adeline Virginia, (1882-1941), author and critic Kensington, Middlesex
- Wootton, Barbara Frances, (1897-1988), Baroness Wootton of Abinger, sociologist and criminologist Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Worzala, Diane Mary Chase, (1934-2007), historian
- Yonge, Charlotte Mary, (1823-1901), novelist
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (5)
- NRA 31085 Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, painter and campaigner for women's rights: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 25624 Sarah Emily Davies, promoter of women's education: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 33448 Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham, biochemist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 31319 Bessie Rayner Parkes, author, journalist and campaigner for women's rights: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 39049 Eugenie Strong, classical archaeologist and art historian: corresp, diaries and papers link to online catalogue