University of St Andrews

While at St Andrews University , WM was frustrated and annoyed by gender stereotyping: The theory of female inferiority did not square with the actual strength and courage of women, and probably never had done...

As a student at St Andrews University , WM spent two years on the editorial committee for the student journal College Echoes.

Her life-long frustration over gender inequality remains at the centre of the book. As an undergraduate at St Andrews she observes how the patriarchal Law rated us as second-class citizens (we could not vote) and...

Perhaps because WM 's writing career ran alongside that of her more famous husband , and because she published in collaboration with him, her own work has been subordinated to his and for a time...

The full title was yet longer: A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, to the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and to the Curiosities in the District of Craven, in the...

Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham , Girton , and Somerville College s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women

These books have been credited with single-handedly raising literacy rates among children. They have generated income for many others besides JKR . Firms awarded the contracts for Harry Potter merchandise include Marks and Spencer for...

Three more Scottish universities followed Strathclyde's lead: MS received Honorary DLitts from Edinburgh University in 1989, Aberdeen in 1995, and St Andrews in 1998. In 1995, she received a DUniv from Heriot-Watt University , where...

The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore...

HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...

Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...

Fay Birkinshaw (later FW ), on her eighteenth birthday, left London to enter St Andrews University , St Andrews, on a scholarship, to study economics and psychology.

Fay Birkinshaw (later FW ) left St Andrews University having qualified for her MA (a first degree in Scotland) in economics and psychology; she did not actually collect her degree for some years.

FW was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of St Andrews , only one year after she had finally collected the undergraduate degree she had earned years before from the same institution.

At first she could not afford the money, or later the time; then she forgot about it. After more than thirty years St Andrews wrote to challenge her claim to have been educated there; they...