Edith Sharpley

Edith Sharpley (1859–1940) was a Classical Lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1884 to 1910.[1][2]

Edith Sharpley
Born(1859-01-24)24 January 1859
Louth, Lincolnshire
Died14 April 1940(1940-04-14) (aged 81)
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
OccupationClassical scholar

Life

Sharpley was the second of ten children[3] born to Sarah McNicoll and Dr Thomas Sharpley in Louth in Lincolnshire. She was born on 24 January 1859[4] and went to several schools in Louth, Taunton and Paris before attending Manchester High School. She started at Newnham College in 1879, eleven years before her sister Mary McNicoll Sharpley in 1890.[3]

Sharpley is the first student at Newnham who is recorded as having coxed a boat on the River Cam - in 1879. This was fifteen years before bicycles were permitted at Newnham.[5] She took a first in part II of the Classical Tripos for which philosophy was her specialist subject. She then became a lecturer in Classics at the college, focussing on teaching rather than research and writing. She was a lifelong correspondent of Eleanor Sidgwick and assisted Blanche Athena Clough in caring for her aunt Anne Clough[1] who had been Newnham's first principal. Sharpley was the first registrar of the roll of students and became vice principal in 1911. One student wrote of "the fastidiousness of her taste and the ruthlessness of her judgement".[6]

Sharpley was elected to Newnham's governing body from 1919 to 1922. She died on 14 April 1940.[4]

References

Citations
  1. Gloyn 2015.
  2. Gloyn 2016.
  3. Wyles & Hall 2016.
  4. Sharpley search, Lib.cam.ac.uk, Retrieved 16 February 2016
  5. History, Newnham College Boat Club, Retrieved 15 February 2017
  6. Stray 2013, p. 401.

Sources
  • Durack; Gilbert; Marks (2000), The Bumps: An Account of the Cambridge University Bumping Races, 1827-1999, Gilbert, ISBN 9780953847501
  • Gloyn, Liz (2015), "Some Newnham Classicists of the Past" (PDF), Newnham College Roll Letter, Newnham College: 128
  • Gloyn, Liz (2016), "This is Not a Chapter About Jane Harrison", Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly, Oxford University Press, pp. 153–175, ISBN 9780198725206
  • Stray, Christopher (2013), "Women and Classics in Victorian Oxbridge", Roman Literature, Gender and Reception, Routledge, ISBN 9781135948139
  • Wyles, Rosie; Hall, Edith (17 November 2016), Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly, OUP Oxford, pp. 174–175, ISBN 978-0-19-103829-7
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