Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard

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...

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.

On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York. At Columbia University she had been expected to give four lectures to audiences of approximately two hundred each. However...

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...

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

PLT followed her writer-in-residence stint at Radcliffe College with another year in the same position at Smith College , in Northampton, Massachusetts.

When in September 1970 Walker applied for a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute at Cambridge to work on this novel, she was planning that her protagonist, a young, Southern woman studying at a genteel black...

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...

Walker closed her stay at the Radcliffe Institute with homage to Zora Neale Hurston , whose writings and life-story she had only recently discovered. She borrowed a curse-prayer from Hurston's Mules and Men, and...

She finished work on this volume (titled from a plant which her mother rescued from a deserted house, kept for years, and gave away in cuttings) during the first year of her Radcliffe Institute fellowship...