Cambridge University

MS and her husband , at the behest of a group of Cambridge's mathematical scholars impressed with her work on Laplace , arrived at Cambridge University for a week-long stay.

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...

AS met her longtime partner Sarah Wood at Cambridge University in the 1980s. Wood, now a documentary filmmaker with a focus on the found object, collaborated with Smith on theatrical projects, mounting original...

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...

ZS placed a story, The Waiter's Wife, in Granta, Cambridge University 's literary magazine and a venue for many young writers who later became widely known. She continued to publish in Granta after this.

In the same period she made two important philosophical friendships: with Anthony Deane , then a curate, and Henry Melvill Gwatkin , Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge . Both wanted to bring her back...

MS visited Professor Henry Melvill Gwatkin at Cambridge , and was treated to a series of conversations on history, philosophy, and metaphysics which amounted to informal tutorials.

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...

MS supported herself and Percy Florence through her writing—novels and journalism—and editing. He, through her earnings, was educated at Harrow School and Cambridge University . She also supported her aging father until his death in 1836.

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...

During this period, DR 's energies were centred significantly but not exclusively on her own family. In 1922 she helped her husband with his parliamentary campaign and began her critical work The Religion of the...

Mary Berry , who wrote that LRR spent her youth in those occupations which it has been agreed to call the education of females, was misplacing her feminist indignation. It has been said that...

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...

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...

Aurelia Plath attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly...