Girton College, Cambridge University

Queenie Roth (later QDL ) began her university career by going up to Girton College on a scholarship.

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.

At about the time she was married QDL began her three years' doctoral work on fiction of popular culture at Girton College, Cambridge , as an Ottolie Hancock Research Fellow.

She published several more pieces in the same journal, the last in September 1925, just before she went up to Girton College : A Street Orator, The Philosophy of Examinations, The Dream Pedlar...

Though she subordinates it to her attack on English aestheticism, Lee also mounts a critique on associated hetero- and homosexual practices of the time. Anne soon rejects the amorous intentions of Richard, whose passion was...

RL , an undergraduate at Girton , achieved a Class II in French in the Modern and Classical Languages Tripos at Cambridge (the second of her two sets of final exams); she had secretly hoped...

These were just her top honours among many. She appeared on radio and tv programmes, acquired an honorary degree from the University of Leeds and an honorary fellowship from Girton , and officially opened the...

RL went up to Girton College, Cambridge University , on a scholarship to read English Literature, joining her elder sister, Helen, who was already there.

AL was educated at home in French, German, and (by a Girton College graduate) Classics.

Based on George MacDonald 's fairy-tale Double-Story, it concerns a princess who has everything except happiness. It is written with panache: the governess is named Girton ia to signify the excellence of her education...

After finishing at St George's, she sought to go to boarding school as a means of escape, and following a rupture and detachment from my father's house she entered Sherborne School for Girls , an...

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...

One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and George Eliot . She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies...

In her late twenties, HM became one of the first batch of students to study at Girton College , Cambridge, despite some opposition from her father .

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