Anne Clough

Anne Jemima Clough (20 January 1820 – 27 February 1892) was an early English suffragette and a promoter of higher education for women.

Related Topics:
20 January - 1820 - 27 February - 1892 - English - Suffragette

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Clough was born at Liverpool on the 20th of January 1820, the daughter

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of a cotton merchant. She was the sister of Arthur Hugh Clough, the poet. When two years old she was taken with the

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Cotton - Arthur Hugh Clough - Poet

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rest of the family to Charleston, South Carolina. It was not

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till 1836 that she returned to England, and though her ambition

Related Topics:
1836 - England

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was to write, she was occupied for the most part in teaching.

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Her father's failure in business led her to open a school in 1841.

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This was carried on until 1846. In 1852, after making some

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1846 - 1852

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technical studies in London and working at the Borough Road

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and the Home and Colonial schools, she opened another small

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school of her own at Ambleside in Westmorland. Giving this

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Ambleside - Westmorland

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up some ten years later, she lived for a time with the widow

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of her brother Arthur Hugh Clough—who had died in 1861—in

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order that she might educate his children. Keenly interested

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in the education of women, she made friends with Miss Emily Davies, Madame Barbara Bodichon, Miss Frances Buss and others. After helping

Related Topics:
Emily Davies - Barbara Bodichon - Frances Buss

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to found the North of England council for promoting the higher

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education of women, she acted as its secretary from 1867 to

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1870 and as its president from 1873 to 1874.

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1870 - 1873 - 1874

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When it was

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decided to open a house for the residence of women students

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at Cambridge University, Miss Clough was chosen as its first principal.

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This hostel, started in Regent Street, Cambridge, in 1871 with five

Related Topics:
Regent Street - Cambridge - 1871

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students, and continued at Merton Hall in 1872, led to the

Related Topics:
Merton Hall - 1872

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building of Newnham Hall, opened in 1875, and to the erection

Related Topics:
Newnham Hall - 1875

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of Newnham College on its present basis in 1880. Miss Clough's

Related Topics:
Newnham College - 1880

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personal charm and high aims, together with the development.

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of Newnham College under her care, led her to be regarded as

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one of the foremost leaders of the women's educational movement.

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She died at Cambridge on the 27th of February 1892.

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Two portraits of Miss Clough are at Newnham College, one by

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Sir W.B. Richmond, the other by J.J. Shannon.

Related Topics:
W.B. Richmond - J.J. Shannon

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See Memoir of Anne Jemima Clough, by Blanche Athena Clough

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(1897).

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