By Ways of Cambridge History 1st Edition by Florence Ada Keynes ISBN 9781108002332 1108002331

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ISBN 10:  1108002331

ISBN 13:  9781108002332

Author: Florence Ada Keynes

As an early student at Newnham College and subsequently as the wife of John Neville Keynes, Florence Ada Keynes (née Brown), (1861–1958) spent her entire adult life living in Cambridge. A prominent public figure, active in charity work and public service, she became the first female councillor of the city and served as its Mayor in 1932. This charming little book was published when she was 86 years old. It displays her wide knowledge and love of the city of Cambridge, with engaging essays on Barnwell Priory, the history of the old Market Cross and Conduit and of town planning and social housing in Cambridge. Keynes tells of famous personalities from the city’s past, such as the seventeenth-century philosopher Damaris Cudworth and the composer Orlando Gibbons, and recounts more personal memories of the changes her generation lived through, making this a valuable record of her own life.

Table of contents: 

I. The Guildhall and the Market Place
II. The Office of High Steward of the Borough of Cambridge
III. Cambridge Waits and Orlando Gibbons
IV. Barnwell Priory and the Old Abbey House
V. Why Oxford comes First. A Problem in Precedence
VI. Damaris Cudworth.—A Cambridge Woman of the Seventeenth Century
VII. A Town Plan for Cambridge in the Eighteenth Century
VIII. Mendicity House. Sidelights on Social Conditions in Cambridge in the Nineteenth Century

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