I trust that, at least, I shall have brought home to many the conviction that Newnham College is unique, in the character and motives of its first founders, in the steady devotion to its best interests of successive governors, teachers and students, as also in its relations--complicated, but near, we may hope, to a solution--with the University under the protecting shadow of which it has grown to prosperity. My hope for this little work is that, besides helping to justify the existence of the College in the eyes of the world, it may in some measure preserve in its members the knowledge of our best traditions in the past and inspire a confident hope for the future. ALICE GARDNER. BRISTOL, _April, 1921_. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN IDEA. 1871-1880 1 II. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN ADOLESCENCE. 1880-1881 33 III. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN PROGRESS. 1881-1892 57 IV. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN PROGRESS. 1892-1900. PRINCIPALSHIP OF MRS. SIDGWICK 84 V. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN PROGRESS. 1900-1914 109 EPILOGUE. 1914 AND AFTER 135 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PROFESSOR HENRY SIDGWICK. (Photogravure Plate.) _Frontispiece_ From a photograph by Mrs. F. W. H. Myers. FACING PAGE MISS ANNE J. CLOUGH AND THE FIRST FIVE STUDENTS 2 MISS MARION KENNEDY 16 MERTON HALL, 1872-1874 26 MISS ANNE J. CLOUGH. (Photogravure Plate.) 54 From a photograph by Mrs. F. W. H. Myers. MRS. HENRY SIDGWICK 72 From the portrait by J. J. Shannon, R.A. NEWNHAM COLLEGE 86 The Entrance Gates. NEWNHAM COLLEGE, 1920 100 General View of the Building and Grounds. MISS KATHARINE STEPHEN 112 MISS B. A. CLOUGH 138 For permission to reproduce the two illustrations of Professor Henry Sidgwick and Miss A. J. Clough thanks are due to Mrs. F. W. H. Myers; also to Messrs. Bassano for the use of their photographs of Miss B. A. Clough, Miss Katharine Stephen and the general view of the College. A SHORT HISTORY OF NEWNHAM COLLEGE CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN IDEA