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As co-editor, contributor (of nearly fifty pieces), and administrator, QDL was one of the dominant forces behind Scrutiny, the literary journal founded by her husband , herself, and their students, and based at Cambridge

This character (considerably altered in transplanting) was not the novel's only ingredient from life. Its central episode was suggested by the trial for manslaughter of an actual Cambridge undergraduate who had killed two elderly women...

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 .

IM published her novel An Accidental Man, which features both political and personal moral dilemmas, and is dedicated to her Cambridge philosopher friend Kreisel .

She lectured at University College, London, in November 1966. Her Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge University a year later became The Sovereignty of Good, 1970; her Romanes Lecture delivered at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford...

MT was an inveterate letter-writer. Early in her married life she wrote a letter criticising the behaviour of some fashionable ladies, and delivered it on a visit for them to read. Some of her...

EF was editor of the first number of Prospect, a literary magazine published this winter at Cambridge University . She used her editorship (continued until the fifth issue) to introduce an American avant-garde influenced...

The article formed the basis of a paper titled Character in Fiction that VW read to the Heretics Society in Cambridge on 18 May 1924. The paper was published, as Character in Fiction...

BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. In 1930 she was awarded an annual...

SH built a novel, The Man in the Picture. A Ghost Story, around a picture of carnival revellers in Venice, familiar to her protagonist from its position hanging in the rooms of his...

AEH delivered the annual Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge , a critical study which was published the same year as The Name and Nature of Poetry.

She had started putting my poems in shape for this volume some years earlier, while working in Bradford at her very first job as a governess. In later positions she continued to work at her...

In a personal letter she said this pamphlet was written at the request of the Vice Chancellor and Dons of Cambridge .

AEH was also highly regarded as a literary critic. His inaugural lecture for what became the Kennedy Chair of Latin at Cambridge , given on 9 May 1911, was published in 1969 as The Confines...

EW , who is so often identified with her Mississippian home and subject-matter, made some biting comments in a lecture given at Cambridge University on the use of the term regional writer.