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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...

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...

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

SB 's many honours during her lifetime included the Sonning Prize for European Culture in 1983, and an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University . There is a Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University in...

RM received an Honorary DLitt from Cambridge University ; the award was a major event in the last decade of her life.

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.

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

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