Newnham College, Cambridge University

Soon after HM arrived at Newnham , she and Harrison began to develop a personal relationship. Frequently corresponding by letter whether they were both present in Cambridge or not, the two formulated an exclusive, fantastic...

While living in Paris, Mirrlees and Harrison entertained visitors who included HM 's mother (widowed in 1924), and Virginia and Leonard Woolf . The two women were acquainted with Edith Wharton , Dorothy (Strachey)

HM worked all through her later years on a biography of Jane Harrison . She never completed it, partly from indecision as to how much of Harrison's private life to reveal. The text is now...

HM studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge , under the charismatic scholar Jane Harrison .

After completing her studies at Cambridge , HM embarked for France and Italy with her Newnham College friend Karin Costelloe .

Sandeep Parmar , the first scholar to draw on the Mirrlees Archive at Newnham College, Cambridge , published her edition of HM 's Collected Poems.

Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University . Cambridge University awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford

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

Aurelia Plath attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly...

AR then went up to Newnham College , Cambridge, to study Moral Sciences (that is to say philosophy). She took a double first Honours BA (meaning that she took a first on both parts...

The Hogarth Press printed, for private circulation only, ER 's Portrait of a Lady, or The English Spirit Old and New, a memoir of Elizabeth Yates Thompson , the shy philanthropist daughter of publisher...

This volume was reprinted by Newnham in 2002.

Mrs Warren's daughter Vivie Warren, a classic New Woman character, is based in part on Millicent Garrett Fawcett 's daughter Phillipa , who had recently placed first in mathematics at Newnham College . Her mother's...

Henry Sidgwick , philosopher and founder of Newnham College, Cambridge , was ES 's uncle.

Henry's wife, Eleanor Sidgwick (known in the family as Nora), was therefore her aunt by marriage. Née Balfour, Eleanor was sister to Arthur J. Balfour , who became Prime Minister. She married Henry Sidgwick in...