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In 1919, Cartwright became one of five women studying mathematics at Oxford University
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She graduated from Oxford with a first-class degree
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In 1930 she was awarded her D.Phil and her thesis
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Appointed a Lecturer in Mathematics
By 1935, she had been appointed a Lecturer in Mathematics at Cambridge. She would hold this post until 1959 -
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After years of teaching abroad, Cartwright returned to Cambridge, where she was one of the editors of The Collected Papers of G. H. Hardy. She later died there in 1998