Pioneering Women

Pioneering Women: Riddel Hall and Queen's University Belfast; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; FOREWORD by L.A. Clarkson; AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS on behalf of Riddel Hall Heritage Association; INTRODUCTION by Diana Hadden; 1 A Riddel Hall Chronicle; 2 Pioneering Women; 3 Students and Suffragettes; 4 The Founding of Riddel Hall; 5 Miss Ruth Duffin; 6 Early Days; 7 Contentious Issues; 8 Warden and Matron; 9 In Loco Parentis; 10 A Vision of Culture; 11 Citizenship; 12 The War Years; 13 Miss Joyce Power Steele; 14 Miss Dawson; 15 A Story-Book Experience.;Foremost amongst the pioneers of third-level education for women in the north of Ireland were Eliza and Isabella Riddel. Never themselves having had the opportunity of university education, in 1913 they founded Riddel Hall as a residence for women students.