University of Aberdeen

NS published her first novel, The Quarry Wood, a bildungsroman whose heroine, Martha Ironside, has a passion for learning that takes her from poverty and squalor to the University of Aberdeen .

In spring 1973 HA delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen , a series dating back to 1888, whose speakers over the years have included renowned philosophers.

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...

Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen , Edinburgh University , and Columbia University , New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers...

She first started to muse on and explore these ideas after the theft of Vermeer 's painting Young Lady with a Guitar by Irish terrorists during the winter of 1974. She was fascinated by the...

CM , who as a child had copied out the poems of others by stealth, began to write her own poetry as a fourteen-year-old domestic servant living in Aberdeen: she was laughed...

EM 's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory , Eliza Berkeley , Mary Delany , Ann Donellan , and Hester Thrale , besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and...

Once at the University of Aberdeen on a bursary, Martha has to struggle with her gruelling commute by bicycle, with the realisation that she wants a four-year Honours degree instead of the shorter course she...

Three more Scottish universities followed Strathclyde's lead: MS received Honorary DLitts from Edinburgh University in 1989, Aberdeen in 1995, and St Andrews in 1998. In 1995, she received a DUniv from Heriot-Watt University , where...

Classics scholar JEH received an Honorary LL.D from the University of Aberdeen , the first conferred by the institution on a woman.

AS received, in absentia, an Honorary LL.D from the University of Aberdeen .

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded an Honorary DLitt from the University of Aberdeen in 1996.

EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...

While working on her undergraduate degree, NS regularly contributed poetry and other writings to Alma Mater, the magazine of the University of Aberdeen .

In March 1895 she received the first honorary LLD awarded to a woman by the University of Aberdeen , and two years later she received an honorary DLitt from the University of Durham for her scholarship.