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Article: Faith, Duty and Power of Mind: The Cloughs and Their Circle, 1829-1960.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- September 22, 2007
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Faith, Duty and Power of Mind: The Cloughs and Their Circle, 1829-1960, by Gilian Sutherland. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 262 pp. $70.00 US (cloth).
This engaging book is a biography of Anne Jemima Clough and her niece Thena Clough and a history of the origins and development Of women's education at Newnham College, Cambridge, where both women served as principal. What makes this book particularly interesting is the balance between the unique details of each woman's life and the ways each exemplified issues in wider women's experiences in higher education and the political life of a generation.
Anne Jemima Clough was born in 1820 to ...