Harvard University

TSE sailed from Southampton for Montreal en route for his Charles Eliot Norton professorship at Harvard ; it was his first visit back to the USA for seventeen years.

She hated New York (a nasty, paltry . . . negligeable place) but loved Boston (where her old-fashioned hostess, Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton , seemed to her a wonderful remnant of the Flowering...

When in July 1986 he flew to Boston to take up a position at Harvard , she was supposed to follow him after staying long enough in Florence to oversee a total remodelling of his...

Nor did she enjoy living in Boston. She was lonely (her husband often away) and loathed living in an institution [Harvard ] . . . . having to be polite all the time...

WM spent an academic year in the USA, where Edwin Muir was Charles Eliot Norton Professor for the year at Harvard University , at the invitation of the poet Archibald MacLeish .

ZS visited the USA (New York) in April 2000 in connection with the publication of White Teeth, and was back there (Cambridge, Massachusetts, for her appointment at Harvard ) in 2002-3. She...