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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Elspeth Huxley | EH
returned from Kenya to England and took up her place at Reading College (which became Reading University the following year). Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002. 81 |
Employer | Anita Brookner | AB
began her academic career as visiting lecturer at the University of Reading
. Sadler, Lynn Veach. Anita Brookner. Twayne, 1990. 3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elspeth Huxley | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Barbara Hofland | They had been commissioned to this work in 1816 by the Duke of Marlborough
(then still Marquess of Blandford). He had bought the estate of Whiteknights just outside Reading (now the site of Reading University |
Occupation | Anne Stevenson | The 1970s saw AS
hold academic stipends in three countries. In 1970 she had been awarded a scholarship for research at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 13 |
Occupation | Rosalind Coward | After four years lecturing in the Department of Visual Communication at Goldsmiths' College
, London, RC
became a lecturer in the English Department at Reading University
, where she taught Media Studies. Armson, Marion. Email about Rosalind Coward to Kevin Spencer. Coward, Rosalind. Email about Rosalind Coward to Kevin Spencer. |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | As an undergraduate at Reading University
, already a seasoned professional journalist, EH
tried to supplement her meagre finances by producing short stories and reportage, but they did not sell. She continued to write unpaid... |
Reception | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper
and Walter Scott
, as well as Joanna Baillie
, Anne Grant
, and Mary Berry |
Reception | Elinor Glyn | Philip de Laszlo
painted two portraits of EG
, one in 1912 and the other in 1927. They can be viewed on line at the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery
website, at www.jssgallery.org. John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery. under Elinor Glyn |
Reception | Mary Latter | This work is now very rare: the English Short Title Catalogue lists two copies: at the University of Reading
and the University of Otago
, New Zealand. English Short Title Catalogue. |
Textual Production | Naomi Royde-Smith | Collections of letters from NRS
are preserved at the University of Reading
, University College, London
, and the University of Texas at Austin
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Some of her papers are in the National Register of Archives
, while letters survive at the British Library of Political and Economic Science
, the Brotherton Library
at Leeds, and at Reading University
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Textual Production | Menella Bute Smedley | Some of MBS
's letters to her publisher survive at the University of Reading
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Textual Production | Violet Fane | A large selection of VF
's personal papers are held at the University of Reading
. The collection includes letters, diaries, sketchbooks, as well as manuscript copies of her works. “Papers of Mary Montgomerie Currie (Violet Fane)”. University of Reading: Library: Special Collections: Authors’ Papers. |
Textual Production | Anna Wickham | Many of AW
's papers and letters—including most of Natalie Barney
's letters to her—were lost when Wickham's attic was destroyed by a fire-bomb in 1943. Schenck, Celeste. “Anna Wickham”. The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology, edited by Bonnie Kime Scott, Indiana University Press, 1990, pp. 613 - 17. 614 Hepburn, James, Anna Wickham, and James Hepburn. “Editor’s Note and Acknowledgements”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, p. xxv - xxvi. xxvi Hepburn, James, Anna Wickham, and James Hepburn. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 48. 28 |