University of Leeds

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Maud Sulter
MS undertook a doctoral project at the University of Leeds with Professor Griselda Pollock .
Sulter, Maud. Echo. Tate Gallery Publications, 1991.
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Education Storm Jameson
SJ was the first woman awarded a BA in English Language and Literature from LeedsUniversity . She also graduated with first class honours, as the top student of her year.
Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009.
43, 36
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
361
Education Storm Jameson
After completing her undergraduate degree at Leeds she won, the same year, a John Ruteau Fellowship. It was intended for study at University College, London , but she soon transferred to King's College .
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research, 1985.
36: 70
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970.
55,58, 64
Education Storm Jameson
SJ 's thesis was also approved by Leeds University , which had supported her work with a research award. It was published as Modern Drama in Europe, 1922.
Feinstein, Elaine, and Storm Jameson. “Introduction”. None Turn Back, Virago, 1984, p. i - vii.
i
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Family and Intimate relationships Alison Fell
In 1967, during the five years she spent in Edinburgh, AF married an academic who taught at the University of Leeds . They had a son named Ivan, but they divorced before she moved...
Family and Intimate relationships Storm Jameson
SJ married Charles Douglas Clarke . He had been a third-year student at Leeds University while she was in her second year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970.
56
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
361
Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009.
38
Publishing Elizabeth Boyd
The British Library copy, anonymous, with six printers' names listed on its title-page, is 1489 m. 14. The title-page of a re-issue, probably with cancelled title-page (copies at Leeds and Indiana University Libraries) gives EB
Reception Edith Sitwell
ES received an Honorary DLitt from Leeds University .
Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
267
Reception Phyllis Bentley
PB , novelist, journalist and literary critic, was awarded an Honorary DLitt from Leeds University .
Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz, 1962.
251
Reception Ivy Compton-Burnett
ICB was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Leeds University .
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
264
Reception Sarah Grand
At her death, SG left all her manuscripts, copyrights, and published works to her step-granddaughter, Elizabeth Genevieve Bernadine Crawford Haldane McFall , daughter of Haldane McFall .
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
334-5, 100
Her letters and papers are now...
Reception Storm Jameson
Writer and activist SJ received an Honorary DLitt from Leeds University , where in 1912 she had been the first woman to earn a BA in English.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
361
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981.
47
Reception Rosamond Lehmann
These were just her top honours among many. She appeared on radio and tv programmes, acquired an honorary degree from the University of Leeds and an honorary fellowship from Girton , and officially opened the...
Residence Storm Jameson
SJ moved from southern England to Leeds: her husband Guy Patterson Chapman had been appointed to a Chair of Modern History at Leeds University , where Jameson herself had studied.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970.
605
Chapman, Guy Patterson. A Kind of Survivor. Jameson, StormEditor , Gollancz, 1975.
208
Textual Production Sarah Waters
Respected library catalogues, and Contemporary Authors Online, had (in 2011) the novelist SW confused with a different Sarah Waters, an academic in the French Department at the University of Leeds , author of Social...

Timeline

1874
The Yorkshire College of Science was founded; it became the University of Leeds in 1904.
By 1965
Five English universities were offering B.Ed. degrees: Keele , Leeds , Reading , Sheffield , and Sussex .