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Education | Iris Murdoch | At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University
and a place at Vassar
in New York State, as... |
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 | Hilary Mantel | HM
transferred from the “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 Mantel, Hilary. Giving up the Ghost. Fourth Estate, 2003. 153-4 |
Employer | Angela Carter | AC
was an Arts Council fellow in creative writing at the University of Sheffield; after this university jobs became increasingly important to her. Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press, 1996. 87 |
Employer | Sarah Daniels | SD
was writer-in-residence in the English Department at Sheffield University
in 1981, when her career as a dramatist took off with three plays in production successively. Bull, John, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 245. Gale Research, 2001. 116 |
Employer | Louise Page | In 1979 LP
had a post at the University of Sheffield
as Yorkshire Television
's Fellow in Drama and Television. She was also employed to teach at the University of Birmingham
. In 1982-3 she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | Catlin
(not to be confused with the nineteenth-century US painter George Catlin) was the only child of a Congregational minister and his pro-suffragette wife, whose feminist beliefs combined with her husband's growing hostility eventually ended... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Hilary Mantel | The idea for the first of these novels originated while HM
was a patient under psychiatric care at Sheffield University
Student Health Services, suffering from the effects of anti-psychotic medication. She told her doctor that... |
Occupation | Hilary Mantel | After leaving the University of Sheffield
, HM
spent some time as a social worker at a geriatric hospital, followed by a period of retail industry employment. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 |
Occupation | William Empson | He found himself teaching in primitive and personally dangerous conditions in distant universities, at least one a temporary, ad hoc organization—not only short of food but also teaching without books. He was the only European... |
Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | Penumbra, SD
's first play to reach the stage, was performed at SheffieldUniversity
(where she was then writer in residence). Bull, John, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 245. Gale Research, 2001. 116 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 194-11. 207 |
Reception | Margaret Drabble | Sheffield University
awarded MD
an Honorary DLitt. Stovel, Nora Foster. Margaret Drabble: Symbolic Moralist. Starmont House, 1989. 2 |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | |
Reception | Penelope Shuttle | PS
has recorded work for the Poetry Archive
, with the comment: In my poetry I give primacy to the breath. The Poetry Archive. 2005, http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do. Hobsbaum, Philip. “Peter Redgrove: poet known as ’scientist of the strange’”. The Independent, 18 June 2003. |
Textual Production | Ann Radcliffe | AR
is the only woman included in part 3 of the Index of English Literary Manuscripts, volume III, 1700-1800, edited by Margaret M. Smith
and Alexander Lindsay
, 1992. Apart from the commonplace-book at... |
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