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Women Students, Philology, and the War: The ‘First Chapter’ of Modern Language Study at Cambridge, 1883–1917

Women Students, Philology, and the War: The ‘First Chapter’ of Modern Language Study at... Sofia Derer Women Students, Philology, and the War The ‘First Chapter’ of Modern Language Study at Cambridge, 1883–1917 1 Introduction Regarding the study of modern languages at Cambridge, Christopher Brooke ob- serves: “English and modern languages, as we know them, are triposes born in the First World War; they flourished in the student boom that followed it, and have remained giants ever since.” However, the fact that the degree courses (tri- poses) in Modern and Medieval Languages (MML) and English ever were in a po- sition to become those present-day giants originates in one of the most funda- mental changes that British Universities saw in the 19th and 20th centuries: the admission of women. At Cambridge, the close connection between women stu- dents and MML goes back to 1884, when the MML Tripos was established briefly after tripos examinations had been formally opened to women students in 1881. Brooke points out: “The rise and success of MML was one of the first and most remarkable consequences of the opening of exams to women in the early 1880s.” In the early years of degree examination in MML, “the women usually led the men in numbers and quality.” As Brooke implies, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angermion de Gruyter

Women Students, Philology, and the War: The ‘First Chapter’ of Modern Language Study at Cambridge, 1883–1917

Derer, Sofia
Angermion , Volume 15 (1): 32 – Nov 21, 2022
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Sofia Derer Women Students, Philology, and the War The ‘First Chapter’ of Modern Language Study at Cambridge, 1883–1917 1 Introduction Regarding the study of modern languages at Cambridge, Christopher Brooke ob- serves: “English and modern languages, as we know them, are triposes born in the First World War; they flourished in the student boom that followed it, and have remained giants ever since.” However, the fact that the degree courses (tri- poses) in Modern and Medieval Languages (MML) and English ever were in a po- sition to become those present-day giants originates in one of the most funda- mental changes that British Universities saw in the 19th and 20th centuries: the admission of women. At Cambridge, the close connection between women stu- dents and MML goes back to 1884, when the MML Tripos was established briefly after tripos examinations had been formally opened to women students in 1881. Brooke points out: “The rise and success of MML was one of the first and most remarkable consequences of the opening of exams to women in the early 1880s.” In the early years of degree examination in MML, “the women usually led the men in numbers and quality.” As Brooke implies,

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