[1] After a period of 11 years in Cambridge, as wife of Selwyn College's first Master Arthur Lyttelton, she concentrated on her writing and women's committee work.

[1][3] In spite of the initial misgivings of her father, in 1880 she married the Hon Arthur Lyttelton,[4] then a tutor at Keble College, Oxford.

[5] Fortunately the marriage proved strong and the couple went on to have three children: Margaret Lucy (1882),[4] Archer Geoffrey (1884),[4] and Stephen Clive (1887).

[6] During their years at Selwyn, the Lytteltons also helped develop the College Music Society, and they supported the Boat Club (whose colours were chosen by Kathleen).

[6] Following Arthur's death in February 1903, Kathleen edited a collection of his essays entitled Modern Poets of Faith, Doubt and Paganism (1904).

Virginia was initially hesitant and grateful, but by late 1905 had become sufficiently confident to complain that Mrs L "sticks her broad thumb into the middle of my sentences and improves the moral tone".

[5] Her obituary in The Times made no mention of her suffrage and TUC work, and concentrated on her role as a scholarly translator, "a considerable student of literature" and a "diligent critic”.