University of Sheffield

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...

HM transferred from the LSE to the Law faculty of the University of Sheffield in order to be with her boyfriend, Gerald , who was studying geological science there.

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...

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...

AC was an Arts Council fellow in creative writing at the University of Sheffield; after this university jobs became increasingly important to her.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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. She worked at two menial jobs in...

Penumbra, SD 's first play to reach the stage, was performed at SheffieldUniversity (where she was then writer in residence).

Sheffield University awarded MD an Honorary DLitt.

She received further honorary degrees from Durham (June 1948), Oxford (June 1951), and Sheffield (1955).

PS has recorded work for the Poetry Archive , with the comment: In my poetry I give primacy to the breath.Peter Redgrove 's manuscripts are held by Sheffield University .

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...