Newnham College, Cambridge University

MAH 's mother, born Daisy Duncan but later called Margaret by her husband, was lovely, but completely uninterested in her own looks. She had been under eleven when her Irish Home Ruler father died...

Encouraged by Mary Paley , one of Newnham College 's first students, JEH took and passed the Cambridge University Examination for Women. She finished as top candidate and received a scholarship from Newnham.

JEH completed her studies in classics at Newnham College, Cambridge (on a scholarship) by sitting the Classical Tripos exams. She was one of the early women at Cambridge, one of thirteen in her year.

After completing her studies at Newnham and school-teaching for a single term in Oxford, JEH settled in London.

JEH became a resident lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge ; next year she was offered her first (and Newnham's first) Associate Research Fellowship.

Classics lecturer JEH met her student and later close companion, Hope Mirrlees , at Newnham College , Cambridge .

Though still attached to Newnham College , Cambridge , JEH settled for some time in Paris with her former student Hope Mirrlees .

Six months after JEH 's death, she was commemorated at the inaugural Jane Harrison Lecture, delivered by her colleague and friend Gilbert Murray at Newnham College , Cambridge, where Harrison had studied and taught.

Distinguished guests at Newnham at this time included Ruskin and Turgenev ; JEH recalls giving them tours of the college in her Reminiscences of a Student's Life. A great admirer of George Eliot

Another classics student, Jessie (Crum) Stewart , travelled with Harrison to meet Wilhelm Dörpfield in Greece in 1901, and maintained a friendship with her mentor after leaving Newnham which lasted until Harrison's death.

After returning to England in June 1916, Harrison resumed her research and teaching (soon including Old Slavonic, Polish, Arabic, and Spanish) at Newnham College . About now she was also made a Justice of the Peace.

Retirement from Newnham left JEH with an annual pension of £50. Though initially reluctant about the scheme, she accepted a fund of £325 contributed by friends, former students, and other supporters.

However, JEH 's most famous and explicit reappearance is in Virginia Woolf 's A Room of One's Own, a text which evolved from a series of lectures that Woolf—Harrison's friend, admirer, and publisher—gave at...

JEH 's extensive archive at Newnham College, Cambridge , was deposited there by her companion Hope Mirrlees .

The Crowded Street critiques the social rules that limited the career and life choices available to surplus women in post-war England. Its heroine, Muriel Hammond, whose mother will not allow her to go...