 He wrote pamphlets and letters objecting to a mixed university, and in 1897 a university law was passed preventing women from being given a Cambridge degree.There is no record of her publicly disagreeing with her husband's support for the university's discrimination against women.She taught at Newnham and Girton until 1916 and the university did recognise its own would be women graduates, with a formal decree, until over 30 years after she retired.