Bluestockings (40 page)

Sex Disqualification Removal Act
206–7
,
210

Shawcross, Edith
193

Sheffield University
53
,
100
,
101
,
223

Sheldon, Frances
139

Sidgwick, Eleanor
46
,
47
,
157

Sidgwick, Henry
46
,
47
,
48
,
51

Skeat, Walter William
204

slang
131–2

Smedley, Elizabeth
105
,
106

Smith College
56

social class
81

Society for the Promotion of Employment for Women
38

Society of Home Students
52
,
99
,
101
,
113
,
117–18

academic records
156–7

Somerville College
52
,
76
,
81
,
89–90
,
97
,
105
,
116
,
130–31
,
140–41
,
151

declaration of objectives
205

eccentric students
65

house rules
125

meals
194

rowing
168

‘Song for Maidens’
77

Southampton University
55
,
223

Stenhouse, Cynthia
149
,
215

Stillingfleet, Benjamin
5–6

Stopes, Marie
146
,
199
,
233

Stuart, James
39
,
54

suffragettes and suffragists
70
,
174–6

suicide
185–6

Sydney University
93

Talbot, Catherine
7

Taunton Commission
55
,
223

Taylor, Freda
113–14

teacher-training colleges
29
,
30
,
84

teachers
95–7

teaching as a career
202–4
,
211
,
213–14

tennis
165

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
22–3
,
220–21

Thackeray, William Makepeace,
Vanity Fair
31

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
(Wollstonecraft)
220

Thrale, Henry
7

Thrale, Hester
7
,
219–20

Tolkien, J. R. R.
76

Tripos
see
Cambridge University

Tuke, Miss
52

tutors and tutorials
144–5
,
150–54

underwear
135

Universities’ Central Council on Admissions
103

University College, London
52
,
86
,
93
,
148
,
199

debates
172

first women students
32

University Extension Movement
39
,
54
,
221–2

vacations
121–2

Vassar College
56

Vickers, Rosemary
122

Victoria, Queen
37

Victoria University
54
,
203
,
208
,
223

Vindication of the Rights of Women
(Wollstonecraft)
9–10
,
26

vocational education
84

Wales
56

Ward, Mary
14

Waterhouse, Alfred
47

Watson, Constance
62

Weeton, Ellen
28–9
,
30
,
33

Wellesley College
56

Westfield College
52
,
92
,
137–8

leisure activities
164–5

Westminster Magazine
7–8

Whitelands
29

Wilson, Ruth
137–8

Wisconsin University
56

Wollstonecraft, Mary
9–10
,
25
,
26
,
220

Wood, Edith
86
,
96

Woodard Trust
55

Woodhead, Sarah
44

Woolf, Virginia
95
,
227

A Room of One’s Own
210–211

Woolley, Hannah
18–19

Wordsworth, Miss
185

Workwoman’s Guide, The
27

Worthing, Beryl
131

Worthington, Jane
147

Wright, Barbara
103

Wycombe Abbey
55

Yonge, Charlotte
36–7

Zurich University
56

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Chronology

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Bluestockings

1. Ingenious and Learned Ladies

2. Working in Hope

3. Invading Academia

4. Most Abhorred of All Types

5. What to Do if You Catch Fire

6. Freshers

7. Women’s Sphere

8. Blessed Work

9. Spear Fishing and Other Pursuits

10. Shadows

11. Breeding White Elephants

Illustrations

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index