Cambridge University

During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during...

Soon after HM arrived at Newnham , she and Harrison began to develop a personal relationship. Frequently corresponding by letter whether they were both present in Cambridge or not, the two formulated an exclusive, fantastic...

JEH began a close academic and personal relationship with Cambridge classical scholar R. A. Neil . Her later companion Hope Mirrlees suggested that at the time of Neil's death in 1901 these two were engaged.

AS met her longtime partner Sarah Wood at Cambridge University in the 1980s. Wood, now a documentary filmmaker with a focus on the found object, collaborated with Smith on theatrical projects, mounting original...

RM 's father was appointed to a Lectureship in English at Cambridge University , and the family moved to Great Shelford, four miles from Cambridge.

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

ASB 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , was also a Cambridge graduate. He began writing novels in his retirement. He died in 1982. ASB grew up in an intellectual environment; her parents valued art...

When she returned to London from Crete after an intensive spell of literary work, RP married Myles Burnyeat , a Cambridge professor of ancient philosophy.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...