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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...

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...

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...

AEH delivered the annual Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge , a critical study which was published the same year as The Name and Nature of Poetry.

She had started putting my poems in shape for this volume some years earlier, while working in Bradford at her very first job as a governess. In later positions she continued to work at her...

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

AEH was also highly regarded as a literary critic. His inaugural lecture for what became the Kennedy Chair of Latin at Cambridge , given on 9 May 1911, was published in 1969 as The Confines...

EW , who is so often identified with her Mississippian home and subject-matter, made some biting comments in a lecture given at Cambridge University on the use of the term regional writer.

PF published The Gate of Angels, a novel set in an imaginary, all-male Cambridge college in 1912.

LMS published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library and the Bodleian have most of her publications. She was a Fellow...

At CambridgeAS , along with Sarah Wood , actress Cara Seymour , and Abigail Morris (former artistic director of the Soho Theatre Company ), comprised a small theatre company. The plays written by Smith...

VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939. Often writing in French, she used her diaries to record and explain her perceptions of daily events and experiences; her entries are sometimes rooted in fact but...

QDL published her first major work of literary criticism: Fiction and the Reading Public, a slightly revised version of her recent Cambridge dissertation, Fiction and the Reading Public: A Study in Social Anthropology.