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Index

Please note that page numbers in
italics
refer to illustrations in the text.

academic dress
135–8
,
136

academic reports/records
155–8

academic work
144–62

accommodation
49
,
52–3
,
65
,
110–113

Addey, Lucy
85

admission procedures
100–105

Ady, Miss
153

aesthetes
132–3

Aidan, Bishop
12

Allen, Sir Hugh
173–4

America

health of women graduates
73–4

women’s colleges
56

Appleby, Mary
117–18

Armstrong College
85

art colleges
84

Ascham, Roger
14

Ashton, Winifred (Clemence Dane)
200

Association for the Education of Women
52

Astell, Mary
19

Atkinson, Margaret
97

Austen, Jane
9

Bach Choir
143
,
149
,
173–4

Balliol, Devorguilla de
227

Baxter, Mary
91–2

Beale, Dorothea
34–6
,
52
,
55
,
192

Beaufort, Lady Margaret
227

Bebb, Gwyneth
206–7

Bedford College
36
,
52
,
128

Beer, Mariana
97

Bell, Gertrude
117
,
146
,
175
,
176
,
232

Benslow House
44
,
45

Beswick, Sarah
129
,
141

biology
149
,
155
,
160

Birkbeck College
32
,
220

Birmingham University
55
,
77
,
82
,
96
,
101
,
104

debates
171–2

Degree Day
141–2

entrance examinations
102

magazine (
The Mermaid
)
78
,
158

mountaineering
169

Bishop, Elisabeth
180
,
184–5
,
197
,
201
,
214–15

Blackwell, Elizabeth
36
,
38

Bluestockings, origins of term
5–7

Boccaccio, Giovanni
13

Bodichon, Barbara
26
,
36
,
38
,
41
,
45

Bott, Miss
216

Bowerman, Elsie
185

Bristol University
53
,
97
,
223

British Federation of University Women
211

British Women’s Anti-Suffrage League
175

Brittain, Vera
116
,
117
,
119
,
173–4
,
196

Britton, Barbara
216

Brontë, Charlotte,
Jane Eyre
28
,
31

Brooksbank, Ina
127

budgeting
120–21

Buller, Amy
98

Burgon, Dean
75
,
205

Burney, Fanny
7

Buss, Frances Mary
34
,
35–6
,
42
,
51
,
55
,
62
,
71–2

Butler, Josephine
39

Byass, Kathleen
96–7

Byron, George Gordon, Lord,
Don Juan
155

Cairns, Lady Katherine
193

Callender, Bessie
93–4
,
102–3
,
135
,
214

calling cards
108–9

callisthenics
73

Cambridge Higher Local examinations
41
,
43
,
44
,
47
,
55–6

Cambridge Junior Local examinations
42–3
,
44

Cambridge University
101
,
141
,
207

academic dress
135–7

accommodation
110–111
,
111–12

ballot on membership for women
78–9

degrees awarded to women
xxiii
,
22
,
138
,
208

entrance examinations
102

examinations opened to women
51

first woman to read philosophy
22

rowing
167–8

Tripos
47
,
141
,
146
,
208

tutors
151