Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University

The 1970s saw AS hold academic stipends in three countries. In 1970 she had been awarded a scholarship for research at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1973 she...

GB was often scornful of women as a group, and believed that the suffrage movement's militancy would jeopardize the achievements of professional women. Notably, anti-suffragists included many prominent supporters of women's higher education, such as...

From Glasgow AS moved (following creative-writing appointments) to Tayport (across the Firth of Tay from Dundee, then to Oxford. (While she held her post at Lady Margaret Hall , her husband...

The book was related to her highly successful lecture series of the same title given at Oxford the previous year, under the auspices of Lady Margaret Hall , and based on research in the Bibliothèque Nationale