Margaret Tuke
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Dame Margaret "Meta" Jansen Tuke, DBE, M.A. (1862 - 1947), a British academic and educator, was the youngest child of James Hack Tuke.
In 1885 she was one of the first women to go up to Cambridge. She read Midieval and Modern Languages at Newnham, taking her degree in 1888.
[edit] Career
She was Principal of Bedford College from 1906-1929 and a Fellow at Newnham from 1905 to 1936. In September 1937 Dame Margaret presented the Royal Holloway Library at the University of London with a collection of Italian renaissance letters (see[1]).
Dating from 1526-1697 they deal principally with the family and business affairs of the Florentine Ridolfi family. The Tuke manuscript collection enhanced the research potential of existing works of Italian literature ranging from the sixteenth to twentieth century of which Battitista Guarini’s Poetical Works (1630) and Gian Giorgio Trissino’s La Sophonisba (1530) are examples.
[edit] Personal life
She shared interweaving, intimate relationships with other female writers with whom she annually shared a rental summer home (see [2] - Our Story); Caroline Spurgeon and Virginia Gildersleeve shared the home with Tuke and others.
