In 1966, Margaret Barfield graduated from Lipscomb University where she first met Constance (Connie) Marie Fulmer as a professor of Victorian and British literature. After graduation Barfield and Fulmer would reconnect off and on through the years. In 1985, Barfield would accept a job offer from Fulmer to work as an Assistant Director in Medical Education at Lexington. Five years later Fulmer would accept a full professorship at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Barfield would move with Fulmer where she would become Pepperdine University’s Professor Emerita of English. Barfield as a partner in scholarship with Fulmer would work together in the transcribing Edith Simcox’s “Autobiography of A shirtmaker” and writing “A monument to Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox’s Autobiography of Shirtmaker”. In 2017, Barfield and Fulmer were recognized at the 25th anniversary celebration at the British Women Writes Association for having attended the most conferences.