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Miscellaneous cuttings, offprints, obituaries and memorabilia relating chiefly to Girton College collected by Barbara Wallis, 1931 - 1994

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Wallis 5

Scope and Contents

The file contains the following:
1) Four page obituary by AMA [Adela Adam, née Kensington] for ‘Frances Kensington: A Friend of the College’ [Secretary in the 1880s and 1890s, and Bursar towards the end of this period], reprinted from the Girton Review, Easter Term 1931;
2) Obituary by HMC [Helen Cam?] for Bertha Phillpotts (Dame Bertha Surtees Newall) from the Cambridge Review 29 January 1932;
3) Tribute by Mary Dyson Chitty to Frances Margaret Murray [no date - circa 1950? widow of J O F Murray, Master of Selwyn College 1909-28, who died 1944];
4) Printed leaflet concerning Girton College Revised Fees as from Michaelmas Term 1948. February 1948;
5) Printed flyer from R[osemary] Syfret to members of Girton concerning entitlement to degrees, November 1948;
6) Jane Collier, ‘The Future of Women in the University’, pages 77-80 of the Cambridge Review, 30 January 1970, with particular reference to opportunities provided by Lucy Cavendish Collegiate Society;
7) Times obituary for Miss K M Peace, 1974;
8) Postcard of Girton College Chapel kneelers (hassocks), 1974;
9) Cambridge Evening News cutting, 4 April 1975, entitled ‘Bird’s eye view of a woman’s world’, showing an aerial view of Girton College and surrounding area;
10) Girton College Centenary Appeal leaflet 1969;
11) 'Medium Dry Girton' by Gerda Cohen describing news of admission of men at a Roll Lunch 1976 (Guardian 1976);
12) Cambridge Evening News cutting 16 August 1979 showing Gilbert Spencer’s portrait of Mary Cartwright;
13) Service sheet for funeral of Emilie Johanna Stevenson (1888-1982) at Madingley Parish Church 12 February 1982;
14) Observer cutting, 21 January 1990, entitled ‘Time for the girls to join the fellows’ by J H Plumb, being a review of Daphne Bennett, ‘Emily Davies and the Liberation of Women, 1830-1921;
15) Guardian obituary for Muriel Bradbrook, 15 June 1993;
16) Programme for Girton College 125th anniversary celebration 16-17 July 1994.















Dates

  • Creation: 1931 - 1994

Creator

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Various

Finding aid date

2015-11-25 12:59:02+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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