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Donald Crofton, one of the comparatively few male protagonists in RC 's oeuvre, returns home at the beginning of the novel, from university life at Cambridge to a long summer with his close-knit family. His...

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...

QDL 's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop notes, her work recalls Wordsworth 's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants of his time.She quotes...

This suggests that QDL had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge (through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...

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...

In 2013 GG sold her archives (student notes and essays, scripts for the CambridgeFootlights Society , literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, a handmade book designed for her friend Gay Clifford , and professional and...

The reform that would introduce annual exams at Cambridge University was already AJ 's subject as well as her husband's: she had addressed it in the Whitehall Evening Post. The pamphlet generally ascribed to...

As co-editor, contributor (of nearly fifty pieces), and administrator, QDL was one of the dominant forces behind Scrutiny, the literary journal founded by her husband , herself, and their students, and based at Cambridge

AJ published Some Unconscious Influences in the Theatre, a booklet of criticism based on the annual Judith Wilson Lecture she gave at Cambridge University the same year.

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...

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

In a personal letter she said this pamphlet was written at the request of the Vice Chancellor and Dons of Cambridge .

Edith Sitwell had hosted a tea for GS when she came to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard and Virginia Woolf . They had written on 11 June...

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...

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...