University of Durham

AS has held a number of awards: a Scottish Arts Council award, 1974, a Welsh Arts Council award, 1980, a Northern Arts Literary Fellowship at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham , 1981-2, and...

Mary Rainbow (later MS ) received her BA in English with First Class Honours from Durham University , where she had enrolled in 1935.

MS was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Durham University , her alma mater, at a ceremony in Durham Cathedral.

She was involved in both university social activities and sports. She became the president of both the Women's Union and the Literary Society as well as participating in college theatricals. The last may perhaps have...

In 1941 MS was offered a part-time position (six lectures a week) as a lecturer in the English Department of Durham University , which was short of staff because of enlistment in the armed forces...

MS was asked to lecture part-time at St Hild's College of education for women (a part of the university)

While studying at the University of Durham Mary Rainbow (later MS ) continued to write, but poetry rather than fiction, with the dream of becoming a lecturer on poetry at Oxford. Later, when she...

The degree was awarded as part of the celebrations for the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of Durham . The speech introducing MS at the ceremony was given by Professor...

HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...

Contemporary admirers of HW on literary grounds included Walter Scott , who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out a better writer than Teresia Constantia Phillips or others in the...