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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...

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...

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.

This novel is set in the political climate which followed the recent Reform Bill, and in the fashionable area of the Faubourg St Germain in Paris, which its author knew at first hand, as well...

Stephen Lock suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF 's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart

At last he says he will teach her no more: he feels he is leading her into the temptation of worldliness. Mr Howells, it turns out, once studied at Cambridge (as the first scholarship boy...

Her speeches in general are models of grand and persuasive rhetoric; they are designed to inspire patriotism and loyalty, while refusing to be pinned down on policy detail. Elizabeth's frequent references to her gender combine...

Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob , mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities . Female modesty, she says, prevents her...

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...

The play is remarkable among its other fun for a minor characater, Phoebe Clinket, an unhinged woman poet. She was wrongly identified in Edward Parker 's Key as Anne Finch , a mistake which has...

Harrison's memoir is light in style and content. The author skims over events in her life from her childhood to the end of her formal professional life with her retirement from Cambridge University . However...

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...

QDL 's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on...