This Memoir was undertaken chiefly in the hope of giving pleasure to Miss Clough's friends. I have also wished to do what I could to preserve a record of her character and her aims, for those who are now or may be in the future connected with the college which she helped to create, and on whose development she exercised so powerful an influence.<br><br>With these objects in view, I have written at greater length, and have entered into more detail with regard to Miss Clough's character and opinions, than would have been natural or justifiable had I been writing mainly for readers who had no special cause to be interested in my subject.<br><br>I have many friends to thank for their help. I owe much to my mother, Mrs. Arthur Clough, who has given me much valuable information and has read all that I have written; and to Professor and Mrs. Sidgwick and the Miss Kennedys, who have been most kind in helping me with that part of the Memoir which relates to my aunt's life at Cambridge and to the history of Newnham College.