DAVIES ((Sarah) Emily, 1830-1921, Feminist and Suffragist)

Fine Autograph Letter Signed in full to Mrs Ronniger thanking her for "for sending me the Programme of your Reading. I will be sure to make it known whenever I have a good opportunity. It is very seldom that I get so far as Kensington but if I should at any time be within reach of you I should do myself the pleasure of calling on you ...", 17 Cunningham Place, N.W., 25th January no year

Emily Davies was a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access. She is principally remembered as being the co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in England to educate women. Girton college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon and Lady Stanley of Alderley as the first women's college in Cambridge. It was initially established in Hitchin, Hertfordshire with Charlotte Manning as the first Mistress.

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