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Education | Monica Furlong | From Harrow County Girls' SchoolMF
won a place at University College, London
, but she did not take a degree (something that she later regretted). Higher education for girls was not part of her... |
Education | F. Mabel Robinson | Between these years FMR
, again in company with her sister
, was one of the earliest women students at University College
, London. |
Education | Charlotte Mew | CM
later attended lectures at University College, London
, and read widely in English and French. She particularly admired George Eliot
. Mew, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Collected Poems and Prose, edited by Val Warner, Carcanet and Virago, 1981, p. ix - xxii. ix |
Employer | A. S. Byatt | ASB
was a lecturer at University College
, London. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. |
Employer | A. E. Housman | AEH
, who had been working as a clerk at the Patent Office
and pursuing his scholarly interests in his own time at the British Museum
, was offered a Chair in Latin at University College, London
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Mozley | Her next brother, Charles Robert, became what would later be called a dropout, causing expense and embarrassment to his family. Her younger brother, Francis William Newman
, became Professor of Latin at the ecumenical University College, London |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophie Veitch | SV
's elder sister, Zepherina Philadelphia
(whose name on marriage became Smith), was born on 1 April 1836 at Sopley in Hampshire. After the family returned from Palestine she became successively an early student at... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Fleeming (pronounced Fleming) Jenkin had great abilities that were evident from an early age. His biographer, Robert Louis Stevenson
, rates his mother's influence over him very high, and admires though he cannot wholly approve... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Frankau | JF
's brother James
was born in 1853. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Literary responses | Emma Caroline Wood | Not all responses to this novel were negative. Professor Henry Morley
of University College, London
, wrote an unsolicited letter which was printed and circulated to defend Sorrow on the Sea from the prevailing charges... |
Material Conditions of Writing | John Oliver Hobbes | She wrote it during 1891 and 1892, while she was a student at University College, London
, and dedicated it to Alfred Goodwin
, her academic mentor, who had died in the February of 1892... |
Occupation | Barbara Pym | She came to this job via an introduction from a friend in the WRNS, Frances Kendrick
, whose aunt Beatrice Wyatt
was Secretary of the Institute. At the Institute, Pym worked for Daryll Forde
... |
Occupation | Marie Stopes | She also taught at London University, and became a Fellow of University College, London
, in 1910. At this stage her research focussed on paleobotany, the study of fossil plants. (Her work in the field... |
Occupation | Arthur Hugh Clough | He was appointed to the Chair of English Language and Literature at University College, London
(which operated no such religious discrimination as Oxford), and later worked as an examiner for the Education Office in London. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols. |
Occupation | Alison Fell | In 1986 AF
was a writing fellow at the New South Wales Institute of Technology
in Sydney, . In 1998 she held the Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia
, in the School... |
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