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The refusal of full degrees and membership was the reason for women to establish their own colleges, one in Girton outside Cambridge
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When the authorities refuse to consider her theory that Nick was murdered, Georgina seeks out a fellow graduate from Girton College, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help.
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear: Book summary 2010
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Gosh, The Girton Snipers could have kerblammed me as I hurtled along the A14 last week.
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"We didn't come here to get noticed," said the Rev. Brenda Girton-Mitchell, NCC's associate general secretary for justice and advocacy.
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Graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, and later took up with journalist and broadcaster Bernard Levin.
Tina Brown's Daily Beast bids for Newsweek – and a showdown with the Huffington Post Edward Helmore in New York 2010
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The victim's twin sister, a former Girton student and wartime journalist who disguised herself as a man to get close to the battlefield, comes to Maisie Dobbs for help.
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There were only two of them, apparently: a waitress in a Cambridge restaurant, and his cousin, Adela Jennings, lately down from Girton.
Movie Night 2010
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Barbara Bodichon and Lady Goldsmid (another doyenne of the 1866 suffrage movement and a major benefactor of Girton) together advanced her enough money to take out patents.
Hertha Ayrton. 2009
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After interviewing Hertha, Bodichon organized and paid for advanced mathematics lessons and arranged a loan so that she could attend Girton.
Hertha Ayrton. 2009
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Hertha read mathematics at Girton and in 1881 was informally placed in the third class.
Hertha Ayrton. 2009
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