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    Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist who founded Girton College, Cambridge. She campaigned as a suffragist and for...
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  • socialite Emily O'Neill (née Davies) Vanderbilt Thayer (1903–1935). Emily was the daughter of Fredrick Martin Davies and Emily O'Neill Davies, and the...
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    the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college in Cambridge. In 1948...
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  • food writer Emily Davies, English feminist Eric Davies, South African cricketer Eva Davies (1924–2013), British fencer Evan Thomas Davies (1878–1969)...
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  • Sarah Davies may refer to: Sarah Davies (historian), British historian of the Soviet Union Sarah Emily Davies (1830–1921), English feminist Sarah Davies (weightlifter)...
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    first colleges established for women were Girton College, founded by Emily Davies in 1869, Newnham College, founded by Anne Clough and Henry Sidgwick in...
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    His sister Emily Davies was one of the founders of Girton College. Born 26 February 1826 in Chichester, Davies was the son of John D. Davies, one of the...
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  • Ordinances of Religion'. "Davies, Sarah Emily, 1830-1921". SNAC. Retrieved 24 June 2017. James, John Williams. "John Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography...
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    was elected mayor of Aldeburgh in 1908 and gave speeches for suffrage. Emily Davies became an editor of a feminist publication, Englishwoman's Journal. She...
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    Keenly interested in the education of women, she made friends with Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon, Frances Buss and others. She gave evidence to a Royal...
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    doctor, introduced her to Emily Davies, an English suffragist. In her mother's biography, Louisa Garrett Anderson quotes Davies as saying to her mother...
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  • Place circle. Louisa became the treasurer of the circle and friends with Emily Davies who was the secretary and the major activist of the circle. The circle's...
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    neutral witness. Stevie Davies believes that there is what might be called "Charlotte's smoke-screen", and argues that Emily evidently shocked her, to...
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  • influential literary figures, Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016) and Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction (2021). Davies was considered by some critics...
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    commitment to female empowerment. The society included: Barbara Bodichon, Emily Davies, Frances Buss, Dorothea Beale, Jessie Boucherett, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson...
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  • until illness forced her to relinquish her duties in May 1872. when Emily Davies took over, at first on an interim basis; and then from October 1872,...
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    and reform of laws pertaining to the sexes. In 1866, cooperating with Emily Davies, Bodichon produced a scheme to extend university education to women....
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  • meet Emily Davies via the school. She met Emily in Gateshead at the house of Sophie and Annie Crow who were two other puils at the school. Emily Davies was...
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    controversial subject in 1848, when Queen's College first opened in London. Emily Davies campaigned for women's education in the 1860s, and founded Girton College...
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    other Cambridge college for women, Girton, founded two years earlier. Emily Davies, Girton's founder, believed passionately that equality could only be...
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    in Gateshead where she met Emily Davies, the early feminist and future co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge. Davies was to be a lifelong friend and...
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    petition and gather signatures, led by women including Barbara Bodichon, Emily Davies, and Elizabeth Garrett. In 1869, John Stuart Mill published The Subjection...
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  • 1894) 1816 – Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897) 1830 – Emily Davies, British suffragist and educator, co-founder and an early Mistress of...
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  • American women: Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Florence Nightingale, Emily Davies, Josephine Butler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger and Emma Goldman...
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    a KCMG in 1909. He married Emily Davies (d. 1926), with whom he had two daughters, Sybil Rose (b. 1888) and Dorothy Emily (1889-1963). Through his sister...
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  • James Woodforde, John Skinner Two Parsons II. John Skinner Two Women: Emily Davies and Lady Augusta Stanley Walter Raleigh Walter Sickert: A Conversation...
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  • 1870 Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff 1870–1872 Annie Austin 1872–1875 Emily Davies 1875–1884 Marianne Bernard 1885–1903 Elizabeth Welsh 1903–1916 Emily Elizabeth...
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    von Herkomer, and John Everett Millais. The feminist and suffragist Emily Davies was born there in 1830. Sir Leon Simon, President of the Hebrew University...
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    Henry Sidgwick Esq. Trinity College, Cambridge,...Mrs Kitchener...Miss Emily Davies..... Pite, Ralph (2006). Thomas Hardy:The Guarded Life. London: Picador...
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  • married the theologian John Llewelyn Davies, a member of the family of the women's education activist Emily Davies and the positivist Henry Crompton. In...
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