University of Birmingham

While still a student CN was winning awards for her science essays: the Paxton prize in 1885 for an essay on geology, and in 1887 Mason College 's Heslop gold medal for one on Induction...

The Constance Naden Medal was still being awarded at the University of Birmingham , where there is also a bust of the poet and room named for her, into the twenty-first century.

She planned to endow her house as a gift to the nation, but financial difficulties intervened. It now houses the University of Birmingham 's Shakespeare Institute .

Papers of FRH 's survive at Worcestershire Record Office and at the University of Birmingham .

CN made a visit back to Mason College in Birmingham to deliver an address on Herbert Spencer 's The Principles of Sociology to the sociological section of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society .

CN had meanwhile, three years before Gladstone's essay, given up writing poetry, which she came to see as essentially lightweight. Her friends tended to blame for this the influence of Robert Lewins , who later...

GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one. The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...