Changing Women's Lives: The Biography of Dame Rosemary Murray - Couverture rigide

Wilsom, Alison

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1910065331 ISBN 13 : 9781910065334

Editeur : Unicorn Press Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Rosemary Murray (1913-2004) was the eldest of six children in a happy, talented and energetic family whose deeply-engrained attitude of service to the community she inherited. She studied chemistry at Oxford, becoming one of the first women at LMH to achieve aDPhil. in science, and began an academic career as alecturer at Royal Holloway College. The charmed world of Rosemary's childhood and student days vanished abruptly with the outbreak of war. Enlisting in the WRNS as a rating, she served from 1942-46, attaining the rank of Chief Officer. Post-war she was head-hunted by Cambridge University as Demonstrator in Chemistry combined with a Lectureship at Girton College. Here she became interested in women's education, witnessing the success of the long battle to allow women to take degrees and becoming a committee member of the Third Foundation Association, a movement to set up a third women's college. Eventually, when New Hall was started, she became its first Tutor-in-Charge, and later, President.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Alison Wilson read English at Cambridge. She was Librarian of New Hall, Cambridge (later Murray Edwards College) from 1993 to 2010. She conducted extensive interviews with Dame Rosemary for college publications and the film New Hall: 50 Years and was delighted to be chosen by Rosemary s sister to write this biography.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Unicorn Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1910065331
• ISBN 13: 9781910065334
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282