University of Chicago

In 1959 HA became the first woman to be appointed to a full-time faculty position at Princeton . She had already in 1952 won a Guggenheim Fellowship and been the first woman ever invited by...

In the same year, 1819, EB also printed The Monmouth-Street Cap, Being a Close Fit for Many Small Heads as well as Great Ones. Monmouth Street was the centre of the London second-hand clothes...

This has a preface (brief but pithy), as the novel's first incarnation did not. It also has a dedication: to Margaret Walker, daughter of John Jeffreyson , a Dublin judge. (Its better-known title, The...

MD has taught weekly classes at Morley College in London and made annual lecture tours for the Arts Council . In 1999 she was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago .

She also taught at Brandeis University , Rutgers University , Scripps College , Pacific Oaks College , and the University of Chicago .

On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York. At Columbia University she had been expected to give four lectures to audiences of approximately two hundred each. However...

Edith Sitwell had hosted a tea for GS when she came to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard and Virginia Woolf . They had written on 11 June...