Cambridge University

It was said that she read Molière at twelve, and that she disguised herself as a boy in order to study at Cambridge University .

QDL defended her Cambridge dissertation, which was supervised by I. A. Richards , with E. M. Forster as external advisor.

At home, she taught herself Italian and also received instruction in Latin from Michael Slegg , a friend of her brother's from Cambridge University .

Mary Meredith (later MW ) attended Cambridge University extension lectures on literature and history, until ill health intervened.

Kathleen Royds (later Innes) received her Teacher's Diploma in Theory (Class I) and Practice, from Cambridge University.

MS visited Professor Henry Melvill Gwatkin at Cambridge , and was treated to a series of conversations on history, philosophy, and metaphysics which amounted to informal tutorials.

JEH was unusual for the time in writing her Tripos examinations: women were not awarded degrees at Cambridge until 1948, and during the 1870s only about twenty percent of Newnham students attempted the degree course...

She won the Charity Reeves and Thomas Montefiore Prizes to begin her doctoral dissertation, also at Cambridge .

MG gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge by Queenie Leavis , whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis

May was a strong student. In the Senior Certificate public examination in July 1883 she emerged top in history among pupils at all Ealing schools, and she particularly impressed her examiners with an essay about...

She had been working at several jobs already: magazine editing, giving tutorials (at Cambridge called supervisions) to undergraduates, and teaching for the WEA . She earned money the family sorely needed (in part for school...

In her late teens WP planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as...

AB became the first woman Slade Professor of art at Cambridge University .

Though she was never appointed to any actual university post, QDL worked with students from many Cambridge colleges during her career. She once candidly defined her teaching as ventriloquist work behind the scenes [achieved] by...

Leslie Stephen 's daughter from his previous marriage, Laura (1868-1934), suffered from some form of mental disability and lived most of her life in institutions.Julia Stephen had three children from her first marriage...