Robert Alexander Neil

JEH began a close academic and personal relationship with Cambridge classical scholar R. A. Neil . Her later companion Hope Mirrlees suggested that at the time of Neil's death in 1901 these two were engaged.

Apart from R. A. Neil , to whom Hope Mirrlees said she was engaged, Harrison was particularly close, in an emotional although a non-sexual way, to some of her other scholarly colleagues, Gilbert Murray and...