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In 1909, Maxwell became the first woman on the academic staff in
Trinity College when she became lecturer in modern history. In 1932 she was awarded an Litt.D. She was given a personal chair in economic history in 1939, the first female professor and when in 1945 she was appointed to the prestigious
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described her as 'a deeply learned and cultivated woman of much sympathy and understanding, and much modesty and even humility for all her accomplishment and knowledge her shrewd judgments on her subject and on her university tinged always, it seemed, by an amused and ironic detachment which
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in modern history, she became the first woman to hold a full-time chair in
Trinity. Despite this, as with other women, Maxwell was subject to the "six o'clock rule", whereby women had to leave the College precincts in the early evening. The discrimination against women which took many forms,
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confirmed that as his professor, Maxwell, who later became a friend, influenced his intellectual life. He was her only research student. Trinity
College instituted a scholarship named after Professor Maxwell for Masters students in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
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for her undergraduate education. She was among the first cohort of female students admitted to
Trinity College which opened its doors to women in 1904. She was a brilliant student and graduating at the top of her class in History and Political Science in 1908. She spent a year at
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continued into the late twentieth century. Despite this, Maxwell had strong conservative instincts with respect to reform and disliked upsetting the existing order. Maxwell was a pioneer in her study of economic history at a time when it was generally ignored. The historian
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Maxwell lived with her sister at the family home in Dublin and after her retirement moved to
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was ground-breaking in providing an accessible source book of documents for students. It reached a very wide public. She edited Arthur Young's
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became the first woman ophthalmic surgeon in
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