The University of Cambridge has and interesting story...
According to Cambridge University-The Unauthorised History the university was founded by some Oxford scholars who accidentally killed a townswoman while practicing archery. The king ruled on the side of the townspeople and fearing hanging the students fled. The scholars ended up in various areas around England, but many of them settled in Cambridge where they founded the university in 1209.
Cambridge was one of the first universities to have a women's college. Newnham College paved the way for women's studies and helped put Cambrige on the map as a presigious establishment. Besides Newnham the univeristy is made up of 30 other colleges three of which admit only women (Newnham, Murray Edwards, and Lucy Cavendish).
The university appears throughout Virginia's writing especially in A Room of One's Own, an extended version of an essay she presented at Newnham. (Picture of Newnham below)
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