Cambridge University

In the same period she made two important philosophical friendships: with Anthony Deane , then a curate, and Henry Melvill Gwatkin , Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge . Both wanted to bring her back...

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...

At CambridgeAS , along with Sarah Wood , actress Cara Seymour , and Abigail Morris (former artistic director of the Soho Theatre Company ), comprised a small theatre company. The plays written by Smith...

ZS placed a story, The Waiter's Wife, in Granta, Cambridge University 's literary magazine and a venue for many young writers who later became widely known. She continued to publish in Granta after this.

MS and her husband , at the behest of a group of Cambridge's mathematical scholars impressed with her work on Laplace , arrived at Cambridge University for a week-long stay.

The review ridiculed the notion of popularizing advanced scientific works for the unwashed and criticized the publisher for believing a woman capable of such a learned enterprise. The Athenæum review was not alone in...

After her long recovery, FS continued to enjoy her popularity in London society. Sir Sydney Cockerell , director of Cambridge 's Fitzwilliam Museum , became a friend. She was introduced to Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay

GS delivered lectures at Cambridge and Oxford Universities; these were later published by the Hogarth Press .

Edith Sitwell had hosted a tea for GS when she came to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard and Virginia Woolf . They had written on 11 June...

AS and her husband Mark Elvin sailed from the USA for England, where he was to take a job at Cambridge University and she was to devote herself to fulltime writing.

During her adolescence music was even more important to AS than literature. She became a part-time cello teacher in England, and she played in a string orchestra affiliated with Cambridge University .

Another aunt, Pernel Strachey , was Principal of Newnham College (one of Cambridge 's two colleges for women) from 1923 to 1941.

RS 's sister, Karin , was one of the first Freudian psychoanalysts. She became the first woman at Cambridge to receive a Star, or Distinction, in Philosophy. She married Adrian Stephen , Virginia Woolf 's younger brother.

Despite his lack of scholastic success WMT was popular socially, and his wide circle of friends at Cambridge included Alfred Tennyson , Edward FitzGerald , and John Allen . His brief time at university also...

MT sent a copy of this work (now very rare, like everything she published during her lifetime) to her friend Mary Leadbeater . Copies are owned by the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow .