Alice Margaret Cooke
British historian and writer
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- PhD History University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alice Margaret Cooke was a British historian and writer. Cooke catalogued the books in the John Rylands Library and she helped in the development of higher education for women in Manchester. Life Cooke was born in Hulme in Lancashire in 1867 to John and Eliza Anderson Cooke. Following private education she went to Manchester High School for Girls where she was identified as academic. She could attend Owens College, Manchester , since the college had allowed women to attend a few years before and she was able to live with her parents. The university had limited provisions for co-educational education. She liked history and she won the Bradford history scholarship in 1888 which assisted her in gaining not only a first class degree in history in 1890, but also the Jones fellowship. The fellowship funded post-graduate research which resulted in a publication in 1893 of what became the standard account of early Cistercian monasteries. 1893 also saw Cooke become the first woman lecturer working for Thomas Frederick Tout at her alma mater and the first recipient of a master's degree from Owens College: the university did not award history doctorates at that time. She also took various roles to assist female students who were following her path and she became a governor of the university and assistant tutor to women students in 1897. Cooke travelled and cycled and supported women's suffrage. A notable academic task was her compilation of an index to Earl Spencer's Althorp Library. It had been the most expensive library collection ever purchased when the millionairess Enriqueta Rylands paid £210,000 for it. The indexing was undertaken at the request of Mrs. Rylands, for the nascent John Rylands Library. Cooke also sorted an autograph collection created by Thomas Raffles for Enriqueta Rylands.
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