1. Marion Grace Kennedy was a British classical scholar.
11 Facts About Marion Kennedy
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Marion Kennedy was a supporter of women's suffrage and higher education for women.
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Marion Kennedy was born too early to take advantage of women's higher education and her father took the credit for some of her work.
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Marion Kennedy helped to found and then worked for Newnham College, Cambridge, where her ideas shaped its constitution.
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Marion Kennedy's parents were Janet and Benjamin Hall Kennedy and her elder sister was called Charlotte and she too would campaign for women's suffrage.
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Marion Kennedy's father was inspiring, but her mother was the organised one who managed the family's money.
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Marion Kennedy generously financed and was the executive secretary of the Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Cambridge which became part of Newnham in 1880.
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Marion Kennedy looked after the students at the college holding the position of honorary secretary until 1904.
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Marion Kennedy wanted to ensure that the alumnae of the college should have real power over the future direction of the college.
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Marion Kennedy revealed that the book was in fact written by herself, her sister Julia and two of her father's male students; Marion had provided the examples, Julia the philological introduction.
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Marion Kennedy's ashes were interred in Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge with her parents.