“My portrait was taken in my home, and the books and objects reflect two of my principal research areas: firstly, the writings on D.H. Lawrence, represented by three volumes of the scholarly Cambridge University Press Edition; and secondly, the history and culture of the Baltic peoples told in The Ancient Amber Routes, which explores their links with the civilisations of the Mediterranean from the Neolithic to the present. 

 The ivory bangle (crafted before the international ban on ivory and from a government certified cull)  recalls the years of teaching and adventure in Africa. In 1992 when I was elected to the Fellowship, there were only six women Fellows, so it fell to us in particular to encourage female students to realise their potential.  As this 40th Anniversary celebration amply demonstrates, their achievements were – and are – both a tribute to the College and totheir own endeavours.”