Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | Zadie Smith | |
| death | Bernice Rubens | BR
died in the Royal Free Hospital
, Hampstead, two weeks after suffering a stroke on top of her chronic bronchitis. Kennedy, Maev. “Booker winner Bernice Rubens dies”. Guardian Unlimited, 14 Oct. 2004. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| death | Ray Strachey | RS
died in the Royal Free Hospital
in London, in her early fifties, of heart failure, following an operation to remove a fibroid tumour. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books, 1980. 303 Halpern, Barbara Strachey. “Ray Strachey--A Memoir”. Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education, edited by Wayne K. Chapman and Janet M. Manson, Pace University Press, 1998, pp. 77-86. 85 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Doris Lessing | Her mother, born Emily Maude McVeagh
, had disappointed her father (who wanted her to attend university) and worked as a nurse at the Royal Free Hospital
in Hampstead during the Great War (as Lessing... |
| Health | Margaret Forster | MF
had a mastectomy at the Royal Free Hospital
in Hampstead. She had developed breast cancer (although a very unlikely subject for it) three years after bearing her third child. Forster, Margaret. My Life in Houses. Chatto and Windus, 2014. 175-6 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jeni Couzyn | The sections here are A Plan for Parting, Notes to the Designer, The Return, and Songs. The tone of the first section is uneasy, often depicting heterosexual hostility erupting into violence... |
Timeline
March 1877: The London School of Medicine for Women achieved...
Building item
March 1877
The London School of Medicine for Women achieved an agreement for the use of hospital facilities.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
186
1982: A professor of Obstetrics at the Royal Free...
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1982
A professor of Obstetrics at the Royal Free Hospital
in London announced that all women in his unit must give birth lying down; 5,000 women protested on Parliament Hill.
Spallone, Patricia. Beyond Conception: The New Politics of Reproduction. Bergin and Garvey, 1989.
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