University of Edinburgh

Three more Scottish universities followed Strathclyde's lead: MS received Honorary DLitts from Edinburgh University in 1989, Aberdeen in 1995, and St Andrews in 1998. In 1995, she received a DUniv from Heriot-Watt University , where...

The Olive Schreiner Letters Project at the University of Edinburgh (website at www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk) has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council to transcribe, analyse and publish the complete text of Schreiner's 7,000 or...

HCJ lived in the suburb of Merchiston, Edinburgh, where her son Fleeming held a professorship at Edinburgh University and where she became a much respected figure in local society.

Frederick Stewart , husband of MS , accepted a position at Edinburgh University as Regius Professor of geology. The couple moved to Edinburgh and MS decided to make writing her full-time occupation.

MS 's husband, Sir Frederick , retired from the University of Edinburgh as Professor Emeritus, and in the same year the couple moved to the House of Letterawe in the Argyll village of Loch Awe (or Lochawe).

The poem is framed by a substantial first-person prose narrative about a party of people visiting the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. The speaker, evidently EJP herself, relates how her...

The volume closes with A comfortabill Song (beginning Away, vain world), which expresses faith in God's mercies and a resolution to pursue the Christian calling. It takes off from or parodies a recent madrigal...

LMS published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library and the Bodleian have most of her publications. She was a Fellow...

Following the official admittance of women to the medical exams at Edinburgh , SJB published her most significant work, the revised second edition of Medical Women: Two Essays, now retitled Medical Women: A Thesis...

Some of EM 's letters, dating between 1625 and 1631, survive among her papers at the University of Edinburgh and were printed as Letters from Lady Culross, Etc., in Select Biographies, edited for the...

Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen , Edinburgh University , and Columbia University , New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers...

Both editions give an account of the Edinburgh riots of 1870; the second edition brings in more verbal testimony and a number of references to back up SJB 's claims. She maintains a strong voice...

Male students and other protesters gathered in front of University of EdinburghSurgeons' Hall in Edinburgh, in an effort to harass and intimidate SJB and the other female medical students.

Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham , Girton , and Somerville College s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women

The Times informed readers that each female medical student at Edinburgh University had to guarantee to pay 100 guineas for each class in their first year. SJB had to borrow money from her mother, not...