Steamboat ladies

Steamboat ladies was the name given to those female students at the women's colleges of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge who between the years 1904 and 1907 were conferred with ad eundem University of Dublin degrees at Trinity College, Dublin, at a time when their own universities refused to confer degrees upon women. The name comes from the means of transport commonly used by these women to travel to Dublin, Ireland, for the purpose.

Notable steamboat ladies

• Dorothy Brock^[1]
• Sarah Burstall^[1]
• Frances Dove^[1]
• Gertrude Elles^[1]
• Lilian Faithfull^[1]
• Philippa Fawcett^[1]
• Florence Gadesen^[1]
• Ethel Gavin^[1]
• Frances Ralph Gray^[1]
• Katharine Jex-Blake^[1]
• Lilian Knowles^[1]
• Penelope Lawrence^[1]
• Ellen McArthur^[1]
• Edith Major^[1]
• Emily Penrose^[1]
• Bertha Phillpotts^[1]
• Eleanor Rathbone^[1]
• Shena Simon^[1]
• Eugénie Strong^[1]
• Margaret Tuke^[1]
• Katharine Wallas^[1]
• Mary Hay Wood^[1]

References

1. Parkes, Susan M. "Steamboat ladies (act. 1904–1907)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 5 January 2011.

• Burek, Cynthia V.; Bettie Higgs (2007). The Role of Women in the History of Geology. Geological Society of London. p. 146. ISBN 1-86239-227-7..
• Parkes, S. M. (2004). A Danger to the Men?: A History of Women in Trinity College Dublin 1904-2004. Lilliput Press. pp. 75, 90. ISBN 1-84351-040-5..