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Whatever the truth of that, she wrote in full consciousness of outsider status, both delight[ing] in the patriarchal anonymity of the TLS and simultaneously tilt[ing] at it. She used the conventional one for I...

They wanted, they said, to build up and develop in the very heart of the British Empire the opportunities offered to all women students of all nations. Apparently they were thinking...

Though she calls her work a memoir, ES spends only twenty-six pages writing about Eleanor Sidgwick's childhood, and gives much of the text to the history of Newnham, before as well as during her aunt's...

Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...

Negotiating with the Dead, A Writer on Writing, 2002, presents essays on the motives that make people into writers, on the trajectories of their lives, on her own experience, responses to her work, rewards...

Her eponymous Leonard Leuniger is a male Jewish undergraduate at Cambridge , a budding writer. He makes upper-class friends at university whose antisemitism only gradually reveals itself, cruelly frustrating his efforts to win their approval...

This is HO 's haunted house novel; she reports having been inspired by Shirley Jackson 's The Haunting of Hill House. The novel, which opens with an epigraph from African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks

The title of this novel comes from the biblical Book of Proverbs: a servant when he reigneth is one of three things for which, it says, the earth is disquieted. Examples of such disquiet...

After leaving Cambridge permanently, scholar JEH settled in Paris with Hope Mirrlees , who had by now become known as a poet.

Both Cambridge University and the city of Cambridge remained her primary home for the rest of her life.

A year after John Jebb 's resignation from his Cambridge position, he and AJ moved to settle in Craven Street, London.

AS and her husband Mark Elvin sailed from the USA for England, where he was to take a job at Cambridge University and she was to devote herself to fulltime writing.

FB and her husband returned to France, leaving their son at Cambridge University (where he had opted to remain) and intending to settle.

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

The review ridiculed the notion of popularizing advanced scientific works for the unwashed and criticized the publisher for believing a woman capable of such a learned enterprise. The Athenæum review was not alone in...