Sorbonne, University of Paris

Around 1924, when VT was attending classes at the Sorbonne , she wrote a play (unpublished and probably unperformed) about Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I titled Les soeurs ennemies.

Towards the end of the first world war SB 's political consciousness was born when she began to see war as both evil and unnecessary. Germans, too, she realised, could suffer and die: she wished...

While studying at the Sorbonne , Jessie White (later JWM ) travelled with friends to Italy, where she met Garibaldi .

The thesis, originally titled De l'alimentation végétale chez l'homme, was presented in July 1880 to the Faculté de Médicine of Paris . The text (said by the Anna Kingsford site to have been published...

In 1855 she probably published in The Biographical Magazine the life of Felicité de Lammenais , excommunicated French priest, literary critic, and translator, whom she met while studying at the Sorbonne . The article appeared...

Here they kept up a front of marriage but led essentially separate lives. By 1924, VT had begun her first concerted, mature attempts at writing (including a play and a novel, both ultimately unpublished)...

After teaching at various US universities and at the Sorbonne in Paris, NES returned to Cairo in Egypt.

She broke new ground again here, this time by including white characters who are important in themselves as well as by giving more attention to relationship between blacks and whites and to that between blacks...