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Shirreff, Emily (1814 - 1897)

Last edited by Pia_vandeSchaft on May 19, 2025, 12:40 p.m.
Short name Shirreff, Emily
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First name Emily
Birth name Shirreff
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Alternative name Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff
Date of birth 1814
Date of death 1897
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Sex Female
Place of birth England
Place of death England
Lived in England
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Education School education
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Shirreff, Emily was ...
related to Maria Georgina Grey
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Place(s) of Residence England
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Passion and Principle (1841) 0 0
Thoughts on Self-Culture Addressed to Women (1850) 0 0
College Education for Women (1870) 0 0

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Circulations of Shirreff, Emily, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Shirreff, Emily, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

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Emily Shirreff None is portrait of

Sister of Grey, and they wrote and lived together.
Shirreff was mistress of Girton, Cambridge.
Suffragist, abolitionist.
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