Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard

GS was born in the United States to middle-class, Jewish parents who had emigrated from Germany. She did not follow Jewish customs, but she did attempt to think through issues of The Modern Jew...

AR studied at Radcliffe College , where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society and graduated cum laude.

From 1957 she attended Victoria College , University of Toronto . Canadian publishing and the arts in Canada, broadly considered, had not yet recovered from the second world war. There were no cheap reprints of...

After four years at Radcliffe College , Ursula Kroeber (later Le Guin) graduated with a BA in Romance Languages, specializing in Renaissance French and Italian.

GS was accepted into the Harvard Annex (soon to become Radcliffe College; now Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard) as a special student.

GS was admitted to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine on probationary status until she obtained her Bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College .

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

RL 's mother, Alice Marie (Davis) Lehmann , was from New England (of true blue Puritan Mayflower stock) and a graduate of Radcliffe College . She studied history and, according to biographer...

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.

TO made many personal friendships with writers; Hannah Green , who was fifteen years younger, acted as her mentor. She developed a close friendship with the poet Anne Sexton , from the time that...

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...