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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...

But this publication brought JEH much positive recognition as well. Shortly after its appearance, for instance, came the invitation, never before extended to a woman, to speak in the precincts of Cambridge University (in this...

However, an early and strongly condemnatory review appeared from F. L. Lucas of King's College . Lucas argued that QDL 's élitist, ineffective scholarship idealized both pre-industrial literacy and contemporary highbrow culture. To inform one's...

JEH received some praise for her vivid writing, but was attacked for what critics saw as her comparative ignorance of philology and etymology and weakness in her evidence. In what her biographer Annabel Robinson identifies...

EAP has remained little known in literary history, and in the history of exploration she has been displaced in public consciousness by her husband's second wife. However, this situation has begun to change. On 16...

After the Femina Vie Heureuse prize for To the Lighthouse, VW refused in principle to accept any honour from an institution. She declined to give the Clark Lectures at Cambridge University , as well...

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

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

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.

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