I was just making some notes from The Literary Profession in the Elizabethan Age, from 1909 (it remained a standard text at least into the Sixties), and noticed the title of its author, Phoebe Sheavyn, D. Lit. – “Special Lecturer in English Literature and Tutor for Women Students; Warden of the Hall of Residence for Women Students”, at Ashburne Hall in Manchester. She had quite a life, this site indicates:
After studying for her first degree in Aberystwyth she had held posts as Reader, then Fellow, in Bryn Mawr, before returning to England as Tutor and Lecturer in English at Somerville. She had been much impressed by the contrast between the dignified and spacious arrangements she had seen enjoyed by women students in the USA, and the characteristically cramped and meagre accommodation made available to their British counterparts. The early Minute Books of the BFUW Executive indicate something of her determination to strengthen the position of women in academic life in Britain.
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