# Edith Sharpley > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edith_Sharpley > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edith_Sharpley.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Sharpley > Source revision: 1352605360 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English Lecturer}} {{infobox person | name = Edith Sharpley | image = Edith_Sharpley.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1859|1|24}} | birth_place = [Louth, Lincolnshire](/source/Louth%2C_Lincolnshire) | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1940|4|14|1859|1|24}} | death_place = | resting_place = | other_names = | alma_mater = {{plainlist| *[Manchester High School](/source/Manchester_High_School_for_Girls) *[Newnham College](/source/Newnham_College) }} | occupation = [Classical](/source/classics) scholar | organization = | known_for = | awards = }} '''Edith Sharpley''' (1859–1940) was a Classical Lecturer at [Newnham College, Cambridge](/source/Newnham_College%2C_Cambridge) from 1884 to 1910.{{sfn|Gloyn|2015}}{{sfn|Gloyn|2016}} ==Life== Sharpley was the second of ten children{{sfn|Wyles|Hall|2016}} born to Sarah McNicoll and Dr Thomas Sharpley in [Louth](/source/Louth%2C_Lincolnshire) in Lincolnshire. She was born on 24 January 1859 and went to several schools in Louth, [Taunton](/source/Taunton) and Paris before attending [Manchester High School](/source/Manchester_High_School_for_Girls). She started at [Newnham College](/source/Newnham_College) in 1879, eleven years before her sister Mary McNicoll Sharpley in 1890.{{sfn|Wyles|Hall|2016}} Sharpley is the first student at Newnham who is recorded as having coxed a boat on the [River Cam](/source/River_Cam) - in 1879. This was fifteen years before bicycles were permitted at Newnham.[http://newnhamcollegeboatclub.com/History.html History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031222854/http://newnhamcollegeboatclub.com/History.html |date=2016-10-31 }}, Newnham College Boat Club, Retrieved 15 February 2017 She took a [first](/source/British_undergraduate_degree_classification) in part II of the [Classical Tripos](/source/Classical_Tripos) for which philosophy was her specialist subject. She then in 1884 became a lecturer in Classics at the college, focussing on teaching rather than research and writing. She was a lifelong correspondent of [Eleanor Sidgwick](/source/Eleanor_Sidgwick) and assisted [Blanche Athena Clough](/source/Blanche_Athena_Clough) in caring for her aunt [Anne Clough](/source/Anne_Clough){{sfn|Gloyn|2015}} who had been Newnham's first principal. Sharpley became vice principal of Sidgwick Hall in 1911 and was the first registrar of the roll of students from 1918–1929. One student wrote of "the fastidiousness of her taste and the ruthlessness of her judgement".{{sfn|Stray|2013|p=401}} Sharpley was elected to Newnham's governing body from 1919 to 1922. She died on 14 April 1940.[http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2016B.pl?sur=sharpley&suro=w&fir=edith&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 Sharpley search], Lib.cam.ac.uk, Retrieved 16 February 2016 ==References== ===Citations=== {{reflist}} ===Sources=== *{{citation |title=The Bumps: An Account of the Cambridge University Bumping Races, 1827-1999 |last1=Durack |last2=Gilbert |last3=Marks |year=2000 |isbn=9780953847501 |publisher=Gilbert}} *{{citation |url=https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/files/24264626/gloyn_some_newnham_classicists_of_the_past.pdf |title=Some Newnham Classicists of the Past |publisher=Newnham College |page=128 |first=Liz |last=Gloyn |author-link=Liz Gloyn|year=2015 |journal=Newnham College Roll Letter}} *{{citation |title=Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly |first=Liz |last=Gloyn |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2016 |isbn=9780198725206 |chapter=This is Not a Chapter About Jane Harrison |pages=153–175}} *{{citation |title=Women and Classics in Victorian Oxbridge |work=Roman Literature, Gender and Reception |first=Christopher |last=Stray |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=9781135948139}} *{{citation|last1=Wyles |first1=Rosie|last2=Hall |first2=Edith|author2-link=Edith Hall |title=Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8NLDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT174|date=17 November 2016|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-103829-7|pages=174–175}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharpley, Edith}} Category:1859 births Category:1940 deaths Category:Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Category:English classical scholars Category:English women classical scholars Category:People from Louth, Lincolnshire --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edith Sharpley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Sharpley) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Sharpley?action=history)). 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