Girton College, Cambridge University

Having sat the Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams at her school in Carlisle (taking the gamble of an extra term at school after her A-levels to do so, though if she failed to make Oxbridge...

SKS badly wanted to go to university, and begged her father to send her to Girton , but . . . he thought it would be too much for the highly-strung little daughter so dear...

HM took a third in the moral science tripos at Girton College , Cambridge.

Dora Black (later Russell ) was a junior don at her old college, Girton .

KR was a research fellow at Girton College , Cambridge.

AD has held teaching positions at Smith College (1987-88) and Mount Holyoke College (1988-93) in the USA. She was a Fellow of Girton College , 1986-88, and of Clare Hall in 1989 and 1991, both...

At the beginning of her last year as an undergraduate, Queenie Roth (later QDL ) met her future husband, Cambridge don and critic F. R. Leavis , at a Girton College tea.

VT 's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree , taught classics at Queen's College , Harley Street (a secondary, not post-secondary school for girls), but longed to be a university lecturer at Girton College .

IT 's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree , taught classics at Queen's College , Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College .

At Gateshead, ED began life-long friendships with Annie Crow (later Austin) and Jane Crow (from 1848), and Elizabeth Garrett (later Anderson), from 1854. No letters from her to Anderson survive, although a number from Anderson...

BLSB met Phoebe Sarah (Hertha) Marks , a Girton student who became like a daughter to her.

CMW 's struggle with alcoholism began at a very young age. In her memoir, she recalls her first taste of alcohol, a Dutch drink called advocaat, after a church service. She identifies this drink...

When one of RW 's teachers at Girton College suggested that she try writing fiction, she began to imagine half seriously that I might one day write a book.When she did eventually pick up...

For KR , poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake and followed by Coleridge , Yeats , and Edwin Muir . She was at Girton when a generation of Cambridge...

However, JEH 's most famous and explicit reappearance is in Virginia Woolf 's A Room of One's Own, a text which evolved from a series of lectures that Woolf—Harrison's friend, admirer, and publisher—gave at...