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Sheba Feminist Publishers , established in January 1980, is a small independent publisher that champions the work of marginalized UK women. This includes the writing of women who [haven't] been to Oxford or Cambridge ...

AD has held teaching positions at Smith College (1987-88) and Mount Holyoke College (1988-93) in the USA. She was a Fellow of Girton College , 1986-88, and of Clare Hall in 1989 and 1991, both...

In 1868 JB (as president of the organization from 1867 until around 1871) presented its petition for the examination of women candidates for entrance to Cambridge University . The petition was granted in 1869, and...

JEH gave a series of lectures on one of her central interests, classical archaeology, at Cambridge 's Archaeology Lecture Room. This made her the first woman to lecture in the University's buildings.

MS supported herself and Percy Florence through her writing—novels and journalism—and editing. He, through her earnings, was educated at Harrow School and Cambridge University . She also supported her aging father until his death in 1836.

This trip was apparently unsuccessful. Although very many subscriptions were sold at Cambridge , sufficient money eluded her, and the printing of the complete homilies broke off abruptly (in mid-sentence) at the end of the...

WE began publishing his poetry as a Cambridge undergraduate during the years up to 1928 (as did others in the same group at the same time, including Kathleen Raine ). He edited and published his...

The Icarus Girl was written while HO was studying for her A levels, and it was published while she was an undergraduate at Cambridge . She reports having sent just twenty pages to the editor...

EF , who was a contemporary of Hughes as a Cambridge undergraduate and a friend in later years, was commissioned to write this book three weeks after Hughes's funeral in 1999. The Sunday Times serialised...

The Early Called, a story of early deaths from consumption, occupies two chapters. The first introduces Mrs Arden, a childless widow who cares for her niece and nephew, Herbert and Anna Ross, who were...

The intricate plot takes Cordelia as an intrusive visitor to the university of Cambridge to investigate the apparent suicide of Mark, a likeable and unusually conscientious young man, son of the entrepreneurial scientist Sir Ronald...

Pastors and Masters takes place in a university town resembling pre-first-World-War Cambridge , which ICB had visited when her brother Noel was there. Like King's College at that date, her fictional academic community is pervaded...

The novel proper traces Harry Melbourne from his babyhood in the care of labouring-class foster-parents in Cumberland, through his early education by the local parson and his sister, his attendance at Eton and Cambridge

The protagonist, an academic Arabist like her father, is drawn back from modern Cambridge to medieval Toledo in Spain, and to a time when members of Christian, Judaic, and Islamic communities interacted freely. She...

Often narrated by men, these stories are set in masculine preserves: Cambridge colleges, army mess halls, and clubs. The men featured in the stories exhibit idealised masculine characteristics. One, for instance, is cool...