Girton College, Cambridge University

RL went up to Girton College, Cambridge University , on a scholarship to read English Literature, joining her elder sister, Helen, who was already there.

KR attended, on a full scholarship, Girton College, Cambridge , where she set out to study natural sciences. She took the exams qualifying her for a BA degee, however (followed by the standard unearned MA)...

RL , an undergraduate at Girton , achieved a Class II in French in the Modern and Classical Languages Tripos at Cambridge (the second of her two sets of final exams); she had secretly hoped...

KR was a research fellow at Girton College , Cambridge.

AD has held teaching positions at Smith College (1987-88) and Mount Holyoke College (1988-93) in the USA. She was a Fellow of Girton College , 1986-88, and of Clare Hall in 1989 and 1991, both...

Dora Black (later Russell ) was a junior don at her old college, Girton .

VT 's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree , taught classics at Queen's College , Harley Street (a secondary, not post-secondary school for girls), but longed to be a university lecturer at Girton College .

IT 's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree , taught classics at Queen's College , Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College .

At the beginning of her last year as an undergraduate, Queenie Roth (later QDL ) met her future husband, Cambridge don and critic F. R. Leavis , at a Girton College tea.

BLSB met Phoebe Sarah (Hertha) Marks , a Girton student who became like a daughter to her.

At Gateshead, ED began life-long friendships with Annie Crow (later Austin) and Jane Crow (from 1848), and Elizabeth Garrett (later Anderson), from 1854. No letters from her to Anderson survive, although a number from Anderson...

CMW 's struggle with alcoholism began at a very young age. In her memoir, she recalls her first taste of alcohol, a Dutch drink called advocaat, after a church service. She identifies this drink...

For KR , poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake and followed by Coleridge , Yeats , and Edwin Muir . She was at Girton when a generation of Cambridge...

However, JEH 's most famous and explicit reappearance is in Virginia Woolf 's A Room of One's Own, a text which evolved from a series of lectures that Woolf—Harrison's friend, admirer, and publisher—gave at...

When one of RW 's teachers at Girton College suggested that she try writing fiction, she began to imagine half seriously that I might one day write a book.When she did eventually pick up...