Alison Hingston Quiggin
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Alison Hingston Quiggin (1874—1971) was a British anthropologist at the University of Cambridge and the author of the much reprinted A Survey of Primitive Money: The Beginnings of Currency (London, 1949).
Hingston studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1899 to 1902.[1] This school was founded in 1870, which was just 29 years before she attended. [2] She went on to become a lecturer in the Department of Geography at Cambridge University.
Personal life
As a student she founded the secret Leaving Sunday Dinner Society (LSDS), members of which would on Sunday evenings cook for one another in a rented room off the college grounds, where they could smoke and otherwise ignore college rules. Of the idea that young women at the university were there to find husbands, she later said "We didn't take much interest in the men and they were certainly terrified of us."[3] Later, in 1907, she married the linguist Edmund Crosby Quiggin.
