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After her father's death, GH became financially responsible for her mother and her brothers. Under this pressure her output of fiction increased. She helped support Frank during his studies at Cambridge , and continued to...

GE spent £5,000 establishing, with the help of Henry Sidgwick and Michael Foster , a three-year studentship in physiology at Cambridge in memory of Lewes , open equally to men and women.

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

Many of her essays dealt with women's issues and many were topical. University Degrees for Women (2 June 1877) and University Examinations for Women (2 and 9 February 1878) responded respectively to Parliament 's refusal...

This was the first full-length critical work on Forster. It expressed admiration for his writing, but some amusement or impatience over what it presents as his obsession with Englishness and with the all-male educational world...

This work is not so much a diary as a working notebook: its seven sketches take events or issues from VW ' life as grist to (in Doris Lessing 's words) five-finger exercises for future...

This character (considerably altered in transplanting) was not the novel's only ingredient from life. Its central episode was suggested by the trial for manslaughter of an actual Cambridge undergraduate who had killed two elderly women...

MT sent a copy of this work (now very rare, like everything she published during her lifetime) to her friend Mary Leadbeater . Copies are owned by the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow .

IM published her novel An Accidental Man, which features both political and personal moral dilemmas, and is dedicated to her Cambridge philosopher friend Kreisel .

MT was an inveterate letter-writer. Early in her married life she wrote a letter criticising the behaviour of some fashionable ladies, and delivered it on a visit for them to read. Some of her...

EF was editor of the first number of Prospect, a literary magazine published this winter at Cambridge University . She used her editorship (continued until the fifth issue) to introduce an American avant-garde influenced...

The article formed the basis of a paper titled Character in Fiction that VW read to the Heretics Society in Cambridge on 18 May 1924. The paper was published, as Character in Fiction...

She lectured at University College, London, in November 1966. Her Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge University a year later became The Sovereignty of Good, 1970; her Romanes Lecture delivered at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford...

BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. In 1930 she was awarded an annual...

SH built a novel, The Man in the Picture. A Ghost Story, around a picture of carnival revellers in Venice, familiar to her protagonist from its position hanging in the rooms of his...