Mary Paley Marshall
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Mary Marshall was a British economist who in 1874 was one of the first women to take the Tripos examination at Cambridge University – although, as a woman, she was excluded from receiving a degree. Sh
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Mary Paley Marshall (second right) as a student in 1871
Louise Creighton
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Louise Hume Creighton was a British author of books on historical and sociopolitical topics, and an activist for higher education of women at Oxford, and their greater participation in society, includ
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…In 1890, she became a member of the Ladies Dining Society, several of whose members were associated with Newnham College. The society was started by Louise Creighton and Kathleen Lyttelton; other members included Eleanor Sidgwick, the classicist Margaret Verrall, Newnham lecturers Mary Ward and Ellen Wordsworth…
Portrait of Louise Creighton aged 27 by Bertha Johnson, 1878.
Louise Creighton, Wife of Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London, by Glyn Philpot