Cambridge Women
Subtitle: Twelve Portraits
Contributors: Edward Shils (Editor); Carmen Blacker (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 23, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521483445
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Social history; Women scholars; General; Cambridge (England); Social Science; History - General History; Women intellectuals; Sociology; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Gender Studies; Women's Studies - History; Cambridge (England)--Biography; Social Science / Gender Studies; Cambridge; Biography; England
First sentence: In Clough Hall, Newnham College, after contemplating the noble plasterwork of the walls and ceiling and the immense windows, the eye comes to rest on the formidable portraits which hang behind High Table: one of the College's founder, Henry Sidgwick, and those of his first Principal, Anne Jemima Clough, and the second Principal, Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, his wife.