Woman into Mathematician:¹

¹Title with acknowledgements to Vera Brittain.

The opening of university mathematical education to women in the British Isles: a prosopographical note

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Notes

² The phrase used in all the University Charters as they successively abandoned single-sex provision.

³ www.history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Davis/index.html

⁴ www.history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk

⁵ See Notes 3 and 4. There is a short account of the Davis Historical Archive in a previous issue of BSHM Bulletin [Vol 32 number 3] which is devoted to celebrating the MacTutor Archive.

⁶ In the Davis Historical Archive (see Note 3) it is explained that, although women were not awarded degrees at Cambridge and Oxford until 1947 and 1920 respectively, since they were in fact admitted to the university examinations in the early 1880s, I have treated the results obtained in those examinations as graduation-equivalents.

⁷ Girton College Register 1869–1946 (1948); Newnham College Register Volume I 1871–1923 (1979); Volume II 1924–1950 (1981).

⁸ Emily Perrin (1862–1943). Girton student 1880–84, Senior Lecturer 1886–88. ‘Gave up career to look after father who was ill, and subsequently did only voluntary work.’ See Staff list, Girton College Register 1869–1946 (1948,635).