Harvard University

TSE sailed from Southampton for Montreal en route for his Charles Eliot Norton professorship at Harvard ; it was his first visit back to the USA for seventeen years.

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...

WM spent an academic year in the USA, where Edwin Muir was Charles Eliot Norton Professor for the year at Harvard University , at the invitation of the poet Archibald MacLeish .

When in July 1986 he flew to Boston to take up a position at Harvard , she was supposed to follow him after staying long enough in Florence to oversee a total remodelling of his...

Nor did she enjoy living in Boston. She was lonely (her husband often away) and loathed living in an institution [Harvard ] . . . . having to be polite all the time...

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...