Newnham College, Cambridge University

Distinguished guests at Newnham at this time included Ruskin and Turgenev ; JEH recalls giving them tours of the college in her Reminiscences of a Student's Life. A great admirer of George Eliot

Another classics student, Jessie (Crum) Stewart , travelled with Harrison to meet Wilhelm Dörpfield in Greece in 1901, and maintained a friendship with her mentor after leaving Newnham which lasted until Harrison's death.

After returning to England in June 1916, Harrison resumed her research and teaching (soon including Old Slavonic, Polish, Arabic, and Spanish) at Newnham College . About now she was also made a Justice of the Peace.

Retirement from Newnham left JEH with an annual pension of £50. Though initially reluctant about the scheme, she accepted a fund of £325 contributed by friends, former students, and other supporters.

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...

JEH 's extensive archive at Newnham College, Cambridge , was deposited there by her companion Hope Mirrlees .

Encouraged by Mary Paley , one of Newnham College 's first students, JEH took and passed the Cambridge University Examination for Women. She finished as top candidate and received a scholarship from Newnham.

JEH completed her studies in classics at Newnham College, Cambridge (on a scholarship) by sitting the Classical Tripos exams. She was one of the early women at Cambridge, one of thirteen in her year.

After completing her studies at Newnham and school-teaching for a single term in Oxford, JEH settled in London.

JEH became a resident lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge ; next year she was offered her first (and Newnham's first) Associate Research Fellowship.

Classics lecturer JEH met her student and later close companion, Hope Mirrlees , at Newnham College , Cambridge .

Though still attached to Newnham College , Cambridge , JEH settled for some time in Paris with her former student Hope Mirrlees .

After seven months studying at the University of Kiel , Mary Agnes Adamson (later Hamilton) entered Newnham College, Cambridge , on a Mathilde Blind Scholarship, an award set up by the distinguished writer .

MAH published Newnham : An Informal Biography, where the word biography is loosely applied to the story of an institution.

MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional...