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Education | Augusta Ada Byron | AAB
(now Countess of Lovelace) began studying with Augustus De Morgan
, a leading logician and the first professor of mathematics at the University of London
. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/. under Lovelace, Augusta Stein, Dorothy. Ada: A Life and a Legacy. MIT Press, 1985. xix |
Education | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen Royds
(later Innes) graduated from the University of London with a BA (Second Class Honours) in Modern Languages (English and German). Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 25 |
Education | Kathleen E. Innes | About 1910-11, she spent four terms studying under author and naturalist William Henry Hudson
in a University Extension programme taught at Gresham College
. She graduated from this course first in her class and was... |
Education | H. G. Wells | Having initially left school at thirteen, HGW
later attended the Normal School
which later became the Royal College of Science. His most important teacher and inspiration was Thomas Huxley
. He failed his final exams... |
Education | Victoria Cross | While her sisters are known to have attended a small boarding school in England, it is unknown whether Annie Sophie, or VC
, ever had any form of institutionalised lower schooling in England or India... |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Ruth Prawer
enrolled to read for a BA in English at Queen Mary College
, University of London
, from which she went straight on to a graduate degree. Crane, Ralph J. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Twayne, 1992. 3 |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Ruth Prawer
received her MA (a degree which was then London's equivalent to the PhD) from London University
as a member of Queen Mary College
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Education | Michelene Wandor | Later again she studied music at Trinity College of Music
and the University of London
. |
Education | Jane Loudon | After she was married she set out to educate herself in her husband's area of expertise: botany. She attended lectures given by John Lindley
, first professor of botany at London University
, and took... |
Education | Michèle Roberts | After her BA degree, she studied librarianship at the University of London
, for a two-year postgraduate qualification: a year of practical work, a year of lectures, then exams. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. Michèle Roberts. http://www.micheleroberts.co.uk/index.htm. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007. 19,62-3, 76 |
Education | Pat Barker | PB
graduated with a BSc in international history from the Perry, Donna. “Going Home Again: An Interview with Pat Barker”. The Literary Review, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1991, pp. 235-44. 238 |
Education | Jessie White Mario | She arrived in London determined to study medicine so that she could serve as a field nurse during Garibaldi
's campaigns. She was refused entry to fourteen London hospitals. On 10 July 1856, a representative... |
Education | Theodora Benson | Later TB
attended the School of Oriental Languages
at London University
(whose title changed in 1938 to School of Oriental and African Studies) in order to learn Malay for her planned trip to Asia. |
Education | Susan Miles | Having enrolled as a mature student, SM
gained her first-class honours BA in philosophy from London University
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Education | Phyllis Bentley | Bentley was the first person in her family to receive such an extensive and expensive education: none of her brothers went beyond the secondary school level, and it was understood that Cheltenham was preparation for... |
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