qtd. in
Allen, Kirsty, and Willa Muir. “Introduction”. Imagined Selves, edited by Kirsty Allen and Kirsty Allen, Canongate Classics, 1996, p. v - xiii.
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Education | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was educated at Dresden in Germany, then at Cheltenham Ladies' College
(a secondary school), Queen's College
, and Bedford College
. She graduated from London University
with a BA in Arts, having studied... |
Education | Anna Swanwick | Years later, sitting in the capacity of what amounted to a chaperone in classes taught by Francis William Newman
at Bedford College
, she noticed a slight error in his exposition, told him of it... |
Education | Willa Muir | The Carnegie Trust
funded Willa Anderson (later WM
) to work on a thesis on the problems raised by sex in education at Bedford College
, London; she never finished the thesis. qtd. in Allen, Kirsty, and Willa Muir. “Introduction”. Imagined Selves, edited by Kirsty Allen and Kirsty Allen, Canongate Classics, 1996, p. v - xiii. vii Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Freya Stark | FS
studied at Bedford College, University of London
. Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999. 33, 39 |
Education | Carol Rumens | |
Education | Richmal Crompton | RC
received her BA in Classics from Royal Holloway College, London University
, where she held several scholarships. Cadogan, Mary. Richmal Crompton. Sutton, 2003. 37 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Jane Gardam | She was twelve when she overheard her English teacher telling her parents that she was clever, well ahead of the standard for her age. By this time she was attending Saltburn High School
for Girls... |
Education | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were active in the founding of Queen's College
in May 1848. There and at Bedford College
, JW
attended lectures by F. D. Maurice
and Francis Newman
. James Martineau
was also an influence. Herford, Charles Harold, and Julia Wedgwood. “Frances Julia Wedgwood: A Memoir by the Editor”. The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter, Macmillan, 1915, p. xi - xxx. xv-xvi Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Employer | Jo Shapcott | JS
began teaching English at Rolle College
in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth
, which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then... |
Employer | Ann Oakley | AO
was a Research Officer in the Social Research Unit
at Bedford College, University of London
. Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press, 1996. |
Employer | F. Mabel Robinson | FMR
hoped to become a painter, and devoted most of [her] girlhood to painting qtd. in Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke, 1890. 326 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
came home from Royal Holloway College
with her BA in classics, to teach her younger sisters and to coach her brother Noel
for his exams. Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz, 1974. 159 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosalind Coward | RC
is married to Professor John Ellis
, Head of the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London
. In addition to publishing on visual media, he ran Large Door Productions
from... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer
, Anna Brownell Jameson
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Thomas Carlyle
, George MacDonald
, Lady Eastlake
, Elizabeth Rundle Charles
, Lady Martin |
Occupation | Helen Waddell | After Oxford
(where she gave the lectures which launched her scholarly career), HW
applied for various academic jobs, which her biographer Monica Blackett
considers it lucky she did not get. (Many of these jobs included... |
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