University of Edinburgh

In the very month of her death, MAW received an honorary degree from Edinburgh University .

The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore...

Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen , Edinburgh University , and Columbia University , New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers...

Charlotte Carmichael (later CS ) took classes for women conducted by members of Edinburgh University who were concerned about the exclusion of females from the University.

Frederick Stewart , husband of MS , accepted a position at Edinburgh University as Regius Professor of geology. The couple moved to Edinburgh and MS decided to make writing her full-time occupation.

MS 's husband, Sir Frederick , retired from the University of Edinburgh as Professor Emeritus, and in the same year the couple moved to the House of Letterawe in the Argyll village of Loch Awe (or Lochawe).

While she was successfully pursuing her writing, he was building up the University of Edinburgh 's Earth Science department, tripling its size. Among his many accomplishments and honours, he was elected a Fellow of the...

She dedicated it to her grandson Paul and his parents; the last poem in the book conjures up little Paul dancing for, and stamping on, the sea. The book has an epigraph from...

Three more Scottish universities followed Strathclyde's lead: MS received Honorary DLitts from Edinburgh University in 1989, Aberdeen in 1995, and St Andrews in 1998. In 1995, she received a DUniv from Heriot-Watt University , where...

The Olive Schreiner Letters Project at the University of Edinburgh (website at www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk) has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council to transcribe, analyse and publish the complete text of Schreiner's 7,000 or...

LMS published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library and the Bodleian have most of her publications. She was a Fellow...

She then enrolled at Moray House (a teacher training college then attached to Heriot-Watt University but now part of Edinburgh University ) for a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education, without which she would not be qualified...

Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham , Girton , and Somerville College s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women

The poem is framed by a substantial first-person prose narrative about a party of people visiting the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. The speaker, evidently EJP herself, relates how her...

The volume closes with A comfortabill Song (beginning Away, vain world), which expresses faith in God's mercies and a resolution to pursue the Christian calling. It takes off from or parodies a recent madrigal...