Newnham

All my department meetings used to take place in Newnham and I tell you, that building is ninety percent corridor.

Writers in Conversation « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

The other by a packed majority of boroughmongers and white slave-merchants: for such we must consider them, if the assertion of Mr. Alderman Newnham is true, that the common people of this country, of whom they dispose, are in the condition of West-India slaves.

The Tribune, a Periodical Publication, consisting Chiefly of the Political Lectures of J. Thelwall. 1795

The Doctor's communications referred chiefly to a village, or neighborhood, or locality in England, which he chose to call Newnham; although he told the children that this was not the real name, which, for reasons best known to himself, he wished to conceal.

Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Bygrave Wood, Newnham, SatSam RichardsIn their native Derby, H n H attract a cool crossover crowd, mixing fetish-scene leather and corsets with the vintage glamour stylings more usually associated with burlesque.

Clubs picks of the week 2011

So, my husband and I went along to Newnham College where the event was being held and left plenty of time for the journey.

Writers in Conversation « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

A professor of Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, she was invited by the Times Literary Supplement to run a twice-weekly blog for the paper, something which she admits to taking on with initial reluctance.

From Blog to Book « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

I didn't know him particularly well, but I do remember moving into a house on Newnham Road just after graduation as he was moving out of it.

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She obtained a Fulbright scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge where she continued actively writing poetry, occasionally publishing her work in the student newspaper Varsity.

sylvia plath & anne sexton | the art & the artists of self destruction no. 1 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

She met my father while she was reading English at Newnham College, Cambridge, from October 1955 to June 1957 on a Fulbright fellowship from the States.

Lines of beauty: the art of Sylvia Plath 2011

There seem to be no large reception rooms at the front of Newnham, instead you inevitably find yourself trailing through a Kafka-esque box of corridor that snakes ahead to infinity, regularly punctuated by swing doors, until you feel you must surely have entered a time warp.

Writers in Conversation « Tales from the Reading Room 2009