Alice Gardner

Alice Gardner (born April 26, 1854 in Hackney , † November 11, 1927 in Oxford ) was an English ancient historian.

Life

She was one of six children and two of her brothers, Ernest Arthur Gardner and Percy Gardner, were well-known archaeologists. She went to Newnham College , Cambridge in 1876 . She was looked after by Mandell Creighton . In 1879 she finished at the top of history with Sarah Marshall. The male students were all behind them.

After leaving college, she taught in Plymouth and Bedford College before returning to head the history department of her alma mater until she retired in 1914. The First World War saw her in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before she took over the history department at Bristol University in 1915, as her faculty had been drafted for war work. She wanted this university to pursue Cambridge's older standards. In gratitude, she received an MA in 1918 and became a reader in Bristol in 1920 . Cambridge was not yet qualified to award a woman a degree, but Newnham's director Anne Clough supported her research in Asia Minor and Bulgaria.

Gardner was teaching in Bristol in 1921 when Newnham was celebrating his 50th birthday. Gardner published a brief history of Newnham College, Cambridge.

Gardner died in Warneford Hospital in Oxford in 1927.

Fonts (selection)

• Synesius of Cyrene . Philosopher and Bishop . London 1885, OCLC 22139213 .
• Julian . Emperor and Philosopher and the last struggle of paganism against Christianity . London 1895, OCLC 6551968 .
• Studies in John the Scot (Erigena). A philosopher of the dark ages . Oxford 1900.
• Theodore of Studium . His Life and Times . London 1905, OCLC 1017291238 .
• The Lascarids of Nicaea . London 1912, OCLC 1080148751 .
• A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge . Cambridge 1921.