Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard

GS was born in the United States to middle-class, Jewish parents who had emigrated from Germany. She did not follow Jewish customs, but she did attempt to think through issues of The Modern Jew...

AR studied at Radcliffe College , where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society and graduated cum laude.

From 1957 she attended Victoria College , University of Toronto . Canadian publishing and the arts in Canada, broadly considered, had not yet recovered from the second world war. There were no cheap reprints of...

After four years at Radcliffe College , Ursula Kroeber (later Le Guin) graduated with a BA in Romance Languages, specializing in Renaissance French and Italian.

GS was accepted into the Harvard Annex (soon to become Radcliffe College; now Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard) as a special student.

GS was admitted to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine on probationary status until she obtained her Bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College .

In May 1898, after completing a Latin requirement, GS graduated magna cum laude in philosophy from Radcliffe College . She was now fully qualified for admission to Johns Hopkins . Though Johns Hopkins had...

She supplemented her Radcliffe Institute writing fellowship (worth $5,000, awarded for a year and extended for a second year) by teaching at Wellesley College . There her course on black women writers...

PLT had a year as writer-in-residence at Radcliffe College , in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As an undergraduate ZS already hoped one day to make her living through the noble art of literature. Though she felt compelled to disguise her ambition with a joke, it came true with remarkable speed...

In 1961 AS began to get invitations to read or discuss her poetry: at Harvard , Boston College , and Cornell . In the fall of 1961, she was appointed one of the first Radcliffe...

RL 's mother, Alice Marie (Davis) Lehmann , was from New England (of true blue Puritan Mayflower stock) and a graduate of Radcliffe College . She studied history and, according to biographer...

GS had had a flirtation with Leon Solomons during her years at Radcliffe , which remained [p]latonic because neither cared to do more. They had much in common: both were Jewish, intellectuals, and Californians.

TO made many personal friendships with writers; Hannah Green , who was fifteen years younger, acted as her mentor. She developed a close friendship with the poet Anne Sexton , from the time that...

GS 's studies in psychology, philosophy, and medicine fiction left a deep imprint on her way of thinking and in her work. At Radcliffe College she learned from William James his philosophy of Pragmatism: I...