Torchwood/Doctor Who - fic - The Torchwood Girls, Part 4, Jack, Joan, OCs, PG (final version)
Title - The Torchwood Girls, Part 4 (final version)
Author - laurab1Characters/Pairings - Jack, Joan Redfern, OCs ( Read more... )
Author - laurab1Characters/Pairings - Jack, Joan Redfern, OCs ( Read more... )
“Girton and Newnham at Cambridge, and Somerville, Lady Margaret Hall, St Hilda's, St Hugh's and the Society for Home Students at Oxford, along with one college at Durham. And then the London School of Economics, Kings College London and Imperial College London. Is this it, Jack? This is all the choice our girls have? All the choice I have?” she asks, sat across from him, in his office.
Actually, you know... it wasn't. By the late 1890s, women students had been admitted to all four of the ancient Scottish universities - i.e., 100% of Scottish institutions of higher learning existing at the time catered to women as well as men (see here, scrolling down http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Extras/Scotland_1883_EMS.html; or there's information specific to medicine here, with a picture of an early class in Edinburgh here: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=329842 ); women could graduate MA from St Andrews, for instance, from 1896. I don't want to sound like a raving nationalist, but it's a fairly proud record that people tend to overlook.
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I must admit, I don't think I considered the Scottish universities at all. Some of which, yes, are as old as Oxbridge.
I'd missed St Anne's aka the Society for Home Students, too, initially.
I'll read your links, and try and re-write that bit.
I'm really enjoying this; it's a very interesting concept for a 'historical'!
Thank you, otherwise, though :)
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