Suffragist, Educator. She is remembered as a promoter and provider of higher education for women in Victorian England. She was the third child and only daughter of James Butler, a Welsh cotton merchant and his wife Anne Perfect, the daughter of a banker. When she was two-years-old, her family migrated to the United States settling in South Carolina, but they returned to England in 1836. She was the sister to poet, Arthur Hugh Clough, who was responsible for her and their mother after her father died. Although her brothers had gone to private schools and college, she had been educated at home. Her brother Arthur took a keen interest in her education. He directed her studies and under his influence, she began to visit and teach the local poor. In January 1848, she opened a local school with very little success. In 1852, she relocated to the village of Ambleside, where she opened a school for the children of local working class. This school was much more successful, and soon she had enough students to employ two other teachers. After her mother's death in 1860 and the sudden death of her brother Arthur in 1861, she closed the school in 1862 to help Arthur's widow with his children. Well-known for her educational abilities, she was contacted in 1864 by Emily Davies, who was promoting quality education for women. At this point, Clough wrote the article, “Hints on Organization of Girl's Schools, “ which was published in Macmillan's Magazine. After the failure in 1867 to persuade Parliament to give women the same political rights as men, she became part of a like-minded group of women forming London's Society for Women's Suffrage. Soon afterwards, many other women groups were formed; finally, seventeen groups form the National Union of Women's Suffrage. Inspired by the start of a couple of private women schools, she formed in 1867 the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women; she held executive board offices and presented informative lectures to educational professionals on the subject. In 1871 Henry Sidgwick, a professor at Trinity College, established Newnham, a residence for women who were attending lectures at Cambridge University. She was asked to manage this project and later becoming principal. By 1879, Newnham College was fully established with its own teaching staff. Unlike other suffragists, her goals were reached within the restricted social boundaries of her time. Not only did she assist in starting this women's college, she also played a part in establishing the University Association of Assistant Mistresses in 1882, the Cambridge Training College for Women in 1885, and the Women's University in Southwark in 1887. Her brother Arthur's youngest child, Blanche Athena Clough, devoted her life to Newnharn College. She at her aunt's bedside when Anne Clough died, then published her book in 1897, “Memoir of Anne Jemina Clough.” After her death Sidgwick's wife, Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick accepted Clough's position. There are two portraits of Clough at Newnham College, one by Sir William Blake Richmond and the other by Jame Jebusa Shannon. Although Newnharn College was the second college for women to open among the 31 colleges of Cambridge University, the female graduates were issued diplomas from Dublin University in Ireland instead of Cambridge University maintaining the gender bias until 1948; this was the barrier that Miss Clough attempted to overcome. Her life is documented in her published diary and in Mary Gallert of the University of Florida 1997 article, “Against the Odds: Anne Jermaine Clough and Women's Education in England.”