Cambridge University

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...

This is HO 's haunted house novel; she reports having been inspired by Shirley Jackson 's The Haunting of Hill House. The novel, which opens with an epigraph from African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks

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...

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

RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds. Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...

KP wrote a letter to the Fellows of Cambridge University , urging them to use our vulgar tonge.

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...

MP 's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School in Buckingham...

Aurelia Plath attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly...

The play is remarkable among its other fun for a minor characater, Phoebe Clinket, an unhinged woman poet. She was wrongly identified in Edward Parker 's Key as Anne Finch , a mistake which has...

EAP has remained little known in literary history, and in the history of exploration she has been displaced in public consciousness by her husband's second wife. However, this situation has begun to change. On 16...

Mary Berry , who wrote that LRR spent her youth in those occupations which it has been agreed to call the education of females, was misplacing her feminist indignation. It has been said that...

During this period, DR 's energies were centred significantly but not exclusively on her own family. In 1922 she helped her husband with his parliamentary campaign and began her critical work The Religion of the...

LMS published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library and the Bodleian have most of her publications. She was a Fellow...

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.