University of Durham

ES 's musical career earned her two honorary Doctorates of Music: from the University of Durham in 1911, and from Oxford in 1926 (the first woman so honoured who was not part of the Oxford...

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...

HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...

In 1974 she was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester . Two more such degrees followed from Durham in 1979 and the University of Caen in France, 1987.

MS was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Durham University , her alma mater, at a ceremony in Durham Cathedral.

She received another such degree, an Honorary DLitt from the University of Durham , in 1897.

This book is based on the three Newcastle /Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures for 2016, plus a lecture on Sylvia Plath given at Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2013, and others in rhythm and sounds given at Durham University .

LBL 's work has been reprinted in The World Split Open, 1984, edited by Louise Bernikow ; it has been discussed by Margaret Willy (in Essays and Studies, 1952), and Anne Treneer (in...