Bluestockings

by Jane Robinson

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  Index

  Please note that page numbers in italics refer to illustrations in the text.

  academic dress 135–8, 136

  academic reports/records 155–8

  academic work 144–62

  accommodation 49, 52–3, 65, 110–113

  Addey, Lucy 85

  admission procedures 100–105

  Ady, Miss 153

  aesthetes 132–3

  Aidan, Bishop 12

  Allen, Sir Hugh 173–4

  America

  health of women graduates 73–4

  women’s colleges 56

  Appleby, Mary 117–18

  Armstrong College 85

  art colleges 84

  Ascham, Roger 14

  Ashton, Winifred (Clemence Dane) 200

  Association for the Education of Women 52

  Astell, Mary 19

  Atkinson, Margaret 97

  Austen, Jane 9

  Bach Choir 143, 149, 173–4

  Balliol, Devorguilla de 227

  Baxter, Mary 91–2

  Beale, Dorothea 34–6, 52, 55, 192

  Beaufort, Lady Margaret 227

  Bebb, Gwyneth 206–7

  Bedford College 36, 52, 128

  Beer, Mariana 97

  Bell, Gertrude 117, 146, 175, 176, 232

  Benslow House 44, 45

  Beswick, Sarah 129, 141