University of Aberdeen

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...

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...

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...

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 .