Cambridge University

MD received a BA in English with double first-class honours from Cambridge University (Newnham College ).

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

TD and Aru were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...

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...