qtd. in
Black, Claire. “Interview: Claire Keegan”. The Scotsman, 10 Sept. 2010.
Cardiff University
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Bernice Rubens | BR
graduated from University College, Cardiff
, with an Honours BA, upper second class in English. (She later felt that this was a bad choice of subject for a would-be novelist.) Who's Who during her... |
| Education | Bernice Rubens | BR
attended Cardiff High School for Girls, which was known for its rigorous academic standards. At first she often skipped her homework, however, in favour of angling for boys. Later, among the distractions of wartime... |
| Education | Louise Page | LP
took a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University
in 1976 (the year her first play received a reading at the Royal Court Theatre
). She followed it with a post-graduate degree... |
| Education | Claire Keegan | After her spell as a teacher, CK
received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wales
in Cardiff. She called this experience one of the best years of my life. |
| Employer | Winsome Pinnock | In her late teens WP
planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as... |
| Employer | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Mary Agnes Adamson (later MAH
) went to work as assistant to the Professor of History (and head of the department) at the University College of South Wales
, Cardiff. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| politics | Anna Swanwick | The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore... |
| Reception | Gillian Clarke | GC
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been awarded an honorary MA from the University of Wales
. She was made an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth
, Cardiff
and Swansea College |
| Reception | Bernice Rubens | BR
was made a Fellow of the University of Wales at Cardiff
in 1982, received an Honorary DLitt from the same institution in 1991, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in... |
| Residence | Claire Keegan | After graduating from the University of Wales
, Keegan lived what she described as a nomadic life. O’Hagan, Sean. “Claire Keegan: ’Short stories are limited. I’m cornered into writing what I can’”. The Guardian, 5 Sept. 2010. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | More than £2,000 left by EJP
was used to erect Aberdare Hall
, the first residence for women students at University College
, Cardiff, in South Wales. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 242 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
24 October 1883: The University College of South Wales and...
Building item
24 October 1883
The University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire
opened in Cardiff; it was the first Welsh college to admit women from the start.
Evans, W. Gareth. Education and Female Emancipation: the Welsh Experience, 1847-1914. University of Wales Press, 1990.
227-8
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
41
24 October 1883: The University College of South Wales and...
Building item
24 October 1883
The University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire
opened in Cardiff; it was the first Welsh college to admit women from the start.
Evans, W. Gareth. Education and Female Emancipation: the Welsh Experience, 1847-1914. University of Wales Press, 1990.
227-8
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
41
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