University of Aberdeen

EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded an Honorary DLitt from the University of Aberdeen in 1996.

AS received, in absentia, an Honorary LL.D from the University of Aberdeen .

Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen , Edinburgh University , and Columbia University , New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers...

Margaret Cowie (later LS ) received her Master of Arts (a first degree in Scotland) from the University of Aberdeen .

Near the end of the First World War, Margaret Cowie (later LS ) finished her schooling at Peterhead Academy, in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and won a bursary to continue her education at the University of Aberdeen .

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...

AS earned her Master of Letters (MLitt) from the University of Aberdeen, having already received the Bobby Aitken Memorial Prize for Poetry, placed top in her Senior Honours Class, and won the illustrious Lucy...

NS published her first novel, The Quarry Wood, a bildungsroman whose heroine, Martha Ironside, has a passion for learning that takes her from poverty and squalor to the University of Aberdeen .

After attending Cults Primary School, followed by Aberdeen High School for Girls , NS received her MA (a first degree in Scotland) in 1915 from the University of Aberdeen . Her studies in English laid...

While working on her undergraduate degree, NS regularly contributed poetry and other writings to Alma Mater, the magazine of the University of Aberdeen .

Once at the University of Aberdeen on a bursary, Martha has to struggle with her gruelling commute by bicycle, with the realisation that she wants a four-year Honours degree instead of the shorter course she...

EM 's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory , Eliza Berkeley , Mary Delany , Ann Donellan , and Hester Thrale , besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and...

One of her employers was Dr Jack, principal of King's College, Aberdeen , whose wife was sympathetic and whose volumes of Shakespeare she used to borrow.

CM , who as a child had copied out the poems of others by stealth, began to write her own poetry as a fourteen-year-old domestic servant living in Aberdeen: she was laughed...