Newnham College, Cambridge

Newnham College is a women's college in the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1872 by Henry Sidgwick and was the second Cambridge college to admit women, the first being Girton.

Alumnae

Alumnae of Newnham include:

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• Diane Abbott
• Eleanor Bron
• A. S. Byatt
• Margaret Drabble
• Rosalind Franklin
• Jane Goodall
• Germaine Greer
• Patricia Hewitt
• Penelope Leach
• Jessica Mann
• Sylvia Plath
• Emma Thompson
• Katharine Whitehorn

For details of graduates in mathematics up to 1940 see

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• List of graduates of the University of Cambridge on Mathematical Women in the British Isles, 1878-1940

In 1928, Newnham, along with Girton College was one of the venues for a series of lectures by Virginia Woolf that resulted in the famous book-length essay A Room of One's Own.

Related Topics:
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

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Newnham College was the clear conceptual and architectural inspiration for University Women's College at the University of Melbourne, Australia (now University College).

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