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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Marghanita Laski | As a little girl ML
attended Ladybarn House School
in Manchester, which had been founded in 1873 as a pioneering institution following the educational ideals of Pestalozzi
and Froebel
. This was part of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Features | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during... |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | Through correspondence RM
became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford
, and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union
. He was fifteen years her... |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | She used the firm of John Murray
, who remained her regular publisher until 1912. Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana. 356 |
Textual Features | Cecily Mackworth | Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attack CM
reports how she found the streets of Jerusalem full of tense, trigger-happy young British soldiers. Gershon Agronsky
, editor of the Palestine Post, Mackworth, Cecily. The Mouth of the Sword. Routledge and K. Paul. 34 |
Characters | Ethel Mannin | Starridge is a recent Oxford
graduate whom his family and acquaintance find distinctly odd. He is unable to relate to others and prefers working as a freelance poet to employment in his father's accountancy firm... |
Reception | Hilary Mantel | HM
already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison
, 2004. A. S. Byatt
discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen
and Muriel Spark |
Leisure and Society | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | After her schooling at St Leonard's
and before her brief time at Oxford
, Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR
) was a debutante for three years, during which time she was bored and suffocated by... |
Occupation | Emma Marshall | While living first in Exeter and then in Gloucester, EM
organized evening lectures for women, a cause into which she threw herself heart and soul. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 102 |
Education | Naomi Mitchison | |
Reception | Naomi Mitchison | |
Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | According to her daughter Lois Godfrey
, it appeared in the Journal of Physiology when NM
was sixteen and a member of the Society of Home Students
(later St Anne's College
) at Oxford University
. The Ship. St Anne’s College. 89: 41 |
Friends, Associates | Mary More | MM
's friends included, in London, a number of scientists or natural philosophers: inventor Robert Hooke
(who often visited her, and with whom she discussed dreams), physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane
, and scholar... |
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