University of Durham

Mary Rainbow (later MS ) received her BA in English with First Class Honours from Durham University , where she had enrolled in 1935.

She was involved in both university social activities and sports. She became the president of both the Women's Union and the Literary Society as well as participating in college theatricals. The last may perhaps have...

In LondonFA worked as a librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (which bought her a few hours of solitude each day to write in) until she took the plunge and became a...

After becoming known as a poet Fanthorpe held several writer-in-residence posts. The offer of a year as Arts Council writer in residence at St Martin's College , Lancaster in 1983 moved the hospital to give...

She has also held writer-in-residence positions at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham (as Northern Arts Literary Fellow, 1988-90), Queen's University, Belfast (1991-3 and again 1995-8), University College, Cork (1994), and the Stockholm University (Spring...

In 1941 MS was offered a part-time position (six lectures a week) as a lecturer in the English Department of Durham University , which was short of staff because of enlistment in the armed forces...

MS was asked to lecture part-time at St Hild's College of education for women (a part of the university)

Five hundred people were detained under this law in its first six months. On release they could be re-arrested (as First was as she stood in a phone booth outside the prison, about to tell...

While studying at the University of Durham Mary Rainbow (later MS ) continued to write, but poetry rather than fiction, with the dream of becoming a lecturer on poetry at Oxford. Later, when she...

GS served for three years as president of English PEN . One month before her term was due to expire she resigned her presidency in order to draw attention to what she said was an...

In March 1895 she received the first honorary LLD awarded to a woman by the University of Aberdeen , and two years later she received an honorary DLitt from the University of Durham for her scholarship.

She has spent two periods working at the Centre for Medical Humanities as a Fellow of Durham University 's Institute for Advanced Studies, the second of them in early 2012.

She received further honorary degrees from Durham (June 1948), Oxford (June 1951), and Sheffield (1955).

She received an Honorary DLitt from Durham University in 1950.

Contemporary admirers of HW on literary grounds included Walter Scott , who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out a better writer than Teresia Constantia Phillips or others in the...