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ANNE JEMIMA CLOUGH (182o-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 561 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANNE JEMIMA See also:CLOUGH (182o-1892)  , See also:English educationalist, was See also:born at See also:Liverpool on the loth of See also:January 182o, the daughter of a See also:cotton See also:merchant . She was the See also:sister of See also:Arthur See also:Hugh See also:Clough, the poet . When two years old she was taken with the See also:rest of the See also:family to See also:Charleston, See also:South Carolina . It was not till 1836 that she returned to See also:England, and though her ambition was to write, she was occupied for the most See also:part in teaching . Her See also:father's failure in business led her to open a school in 1841 . This was carried on until 1846 . In 1852, after making some technical studies in See also:London and working at the See also:Borough Road and the See also:Home and Colonial See also:schools, she opened another small school of her own at See also:Ambleside in See also:Westmorland . Giving this up some ten years later, she lived for a See also:time with the widow of her See also:brother Arthur Hugh Clough—who had died in 1861—in See also:order that she might educate his See also:children . Keenly interested in the See also:education of See also:women, she made See also:friends with See also:Miss Emily See also:Davies, Madame See also:Bodichon, Miss See also:Buss and others . After helping to found the See also:North of England See also:council for promoting the higher education of women, she acted as its secretary from 1867 to 187o and as its See also:president from 1873 to 1874 . When it was decided to open a See also:house for the See also:residence of women students at See also:Cambridge, Miss Clough was chosen as its first See also:principal . This See also:hostel, started in See also:Regent See also:Street, Cambridge, in 1871 with five students, and continued at Merton See also:Hall in 1872, led to the See also:building of Newnham Hall, opened in 1875, and to the erection of Newnham See also:College on its See also:present basis in 1880 .

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personal See also:charm and high aims, together with the development of Newnham College under her care, led her to be regarded as one of the foremost leaders of the women's educational See also:movement . She died at Cambridge on the 27th of See also:February 1892 . Two portraits of Miss Clough are at Newnham College, one by See also:Sir W . B . See also:Richmond, the other by J . J . See also:Shannon . See Memoir of See also:Anne Jemima Clough, by See also:Blanche See also:Athena Clough (1897) .

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