Harvard University

RR owned a miniature of Dr John Hawkesworth , and china which he had given her. She carefully preserved letters he had written to her (one of which survives at Harvard ) and papers connected...

In 2008 JKR was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard University . The commencement address she gave on this occasion was printed in 2015 with lavish decorations under the title Very Good Lives; profits...

Two copies are known to survive, at the British Library and at Harvard . Critic Steven Epley assigns this poem to her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, though the English Short Title...

No surviving copy was known in 1933, but the Houghton Library at Harvard bought one in October 1996.

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...

JS continued studying at several universities and in several countries for some years after this. At St Hilda's College, Oxford , she took another degree two years later, specialising in American literature. She attended Harvard University

The epigraph is a statement about truth from Shakespeare 's Henry IV Part One. The protagonist of this novel, Sarah Barcant, was born in Smitsrivier, a dusty little South African town dominated by its...

ZS visited the USA (New York) in April 2000 in connection with the publication of White Teeth, and was back there (Cambridge, Massachusetts, for her appointment at Harvard ) in 2002-3. She...

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...

Then came a spell back in the USA while Mark held an appointment at Harvard . They lived in a poor area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where their apartment was repeatedly broken into, and their...

Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press . She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...

She gave her name as Miss Stockdale. The only known surviving copy is at Yale , apart from one bound into MS 's Miscellaneous poems (Harvard ). In this copy MS altered the name Isabel to Isabella.

Harvard has some Wells papers contained in a volume of letters and clippings; but only a couple of items in the eight-volume catalogue are listed as by LS .

The marriage was childless. Samuel Tenney was a Harvard graduate and throughout his life a man of intellectual interests. He practised medicine in Exeter both before and after the war, was a delegate to the...

She hated New York (a nasty, paltry . . . negligeable place) but loved Boston (where her old-fashioned hostess, Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton , seemed to her a wonderful remnant of the Flowering...