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Harrison was always engaged in debates with her colleagues at Cambridge and elsewhere: her writing here was inspired in part by Gilbert Murray 's unorthodox translation of Euripides ' Hippolytus, published in 1902. Both...

Though her influence is not always explicitly acknowledged, JEH made a profound impact on twentieth-century classical scholarship. Her work colours studies not only by Gilbert Murray and Francis Cornford (discussed above), but also by E. R. Dodds

IDH may have had an interest in Pre-Raphaelite art, since in 1872 she composed a letter in support of renowned painter Ford Madox Brown 's nomination to a professorship at Cambridge .

The then celibate society of Cambridge University clearly enjoyed the company of a woman who was their equal in intellectual ability and in range of reading. The Jebbs gave tea-parties, and Ann soon became the...

Often narrated by men, these stories are set in masculine preserves: Cambridge colleges, army mess halls, and clubs. The men featured in the stories exhibit idealised masculine characteristics. One, for instance, is cool...

The protagonist, an academic Arabist like her father, is drawn back from modern Cambridge to medieval Toledo in Spain, and to a time when members of Christian, Judaic, and Islamic communities interacted freely. She...

The action of EMH 's last desert romance, The Captive of Sahara (1931), takes place in Arabia, where Isma goes on an expedition with a female friend with whom she has studied at Cambridge

The trilogy marks a return to MD 's old territory: the first book opens with a party, on New Year's Eve, 1979, which brings together three middle-aged women who were each considered exceptionally promising when...

The Early Called, a story of early deaths from consumption, occupies two chapters. The first introduces Mrs Arden, a childless widow who cares for her niece and nephew, Herbert and Anna Ross, who were...

The intricate plot takes Cordelia as an intrusive visitor to the university of Cambridge to investigate the apparent suicide of Mark, a likeable and unusually conscientious young man, son of the entrepreneurial scientist Sir Ronald...

Pastors and Masters takes place in a university town resembling pre-first-World-War Cambridge , which ICB had visited when her brother Noel was there. Like King's College at that date, her fictional academic community is pervaded...

The novel proper traces Harry Melbourne from his babyhood in the care of labouring-class foster-parents in Cumberland, through his early education by the local parson and his sister, his attendance at Eton and Cambridge

The Icarus Girl was written while HO was studying for her A levels, and it was published while she was an undergraduate at Cambridge . She reports having sent just twenty pages to the editor...

EF , who was a contemporary of Hughes as a Cambridge undergraduate and a friend in later years, was commissioned to write this book three weeks after Hughes's funeral in 1999. The Sunday Times serialised...

This trip was apparently unsuccessful. Although very many subscriptions were sold at Cambridge , sufficient money eluded her, and the printing of the complete homilies broke off abruptly (in mid-sentence) at the end of the...