Example sentences of "college for woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | She served as demonstrator in botany at Bedford College for Women from 1886 to 1890 , when she succeeded Grenville A. J. Cole as head of the geology department , thus becoming the first woman to take over the headship of a geology department in a British university . |
| 2 | She attended Bedford College for Women and entered University College London in 1871 , where she studied law and political economy , winning in 1876 first prize in Roman law and the Hume scholarship in jurisprudence . |
| 3 | Following the failure of the attempt to get Edinburgh to grant medical degrees to women , she moved to London and qualified at the new Medical College for Women in 1873 , but practised only briefly . |
| 4 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 5 | [ Henry Crabb Robinson , Diary , 1869 ; Edith Morley , The Life and Times of Henry Crabb Robinson , 1935 ; Margaret Tuke , A History of Bedford College for Women , 1939 ; Louis Billington and Rosamund Billington , ‘ A Burning Zeal for Righteousness : Women in the British Anti-Slavery Movement , 1820–1860 ’ in Jane Rendall ( ed . ) , |