Complex sentence: In 1885 she became one of the first women to go up to Cambridge University, where she read Modern and Medieval Languages at Newnham, gaining the equivalent of a first class honours degree in 1888.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1885 she was one of the first women to go up to Cambridge University. She read Modern and Medieval Languages at Newnham, gaining the equivalent of a first class honours degree in 1888.