ABSTRACT
Susan Isaacs did not take to Cambridge. In an article signed "A Manchester Girl" written after she had spent a year there and published in May, 1913 in the Manchester University Magazine, she compared the two universities. During the year she spent in Darlington, Susan and William Brierley decided to marry. William, having taken his Finals in Botany at Manchester University at the end of the 1910–1911 academic year had gone on to do an M. Sc. Course that he completed a year later. He was then appointed to an Assistant Lecturership in Economic Botany. The marriage took place in Chorlton Registry Office with William's father and Susie Brierley's married sister, Bessie, as witnesses. For their marriage, Germany had invaded Belgium and war between Germany on the one side and England and France on the other had broken out.
