Edith Sharpley (1859–1940) was a Classical Lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1884 to 1910.

She started at Newnham College in 1879, eleven years before her sister Mary McNicoll Sharpley in 1890.

[3] Sharpley is the first student at Newnham who is recorded as having coxed a boat on the River Cam - in 1879.

She then in 1884 became a lecturer in Classics at the college, focussing on teaching rather than research and writing.

Sharpley became vice principal of Sidgwick Hall in 1911 and was the first registrar of the roll of students from 1918–1929.