Princeton University

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...

RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds. Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...

AC has taught at universities across North America. She is currently, in 2015, teaching at Bard College in New York State. She began her teaching career at the University of Calgary , and has also...

TM was named the Robert F. Goheen Professor of the Humanities at Princeton , becoming the first black woman to hold a chair in an Ivy League University.

She maintained her academic identity with short-term appointments at the State University of New York and then Princeton . She says: There were certain things I could do with ease. Teach. And read books. And...

LV 's mother was born Mary Lind in Jamaica in 1816.. She married LV 's father on 27 February 1833 at St Matthew, Friday Street, in London. In her autobiographical novel When I...

Thirteen of the letters they exchanged are held in the Firestone Library at Princeton . Their relationship was somewhat unusual, as U. C. Knoepflmacher notes. Ruskin at one time counted Ingelow among his eleven closest...

John Downman painted an attractive half-length portrait of her in watercolour and pencil (now at Princeton University ) in 1807. After it changed hands at the Peyraud sale in 2009, a reproduction of it was...

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...

This book was written during a highly social period of ES 's life, and advertised in February 1799. Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...

She left these papers to her nephew Sidney John Ward (her sister Annie's son), and his daughters donated them to Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives in New York City. Other papers...

Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...

Not long before her death SB composed a brief memoir of her internment by the Germans at Vittel during the second world war, for a radio programme to be shared with her fellow-internee the painter...

During her youth DG maintained a notebook that she informally titled Stray Leaves. According to her biographer, William Dorling , this journal contains her thoughts on events and literature, as well as some of...

Independent scholar Sheila Graham-Smith has recently suggested that SHB may be the author of a manuscript novella in the possession of Princeton University entitled Julia. A Tale in Ten Chapters. She bases her argument...