Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
University of Reading
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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
. |
Employer | Anita Brookner | AB
began her academic career as visiting lecturer at the University of Reading
. Sadler, Lynn Veach. Anita Brookner. Twayne. 3 |
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. |
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. |
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. http://www.jssgallery.org/. under Elinor Glyn |
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 |
Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | The Longman
archive at Reading University
contains material on BH
. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 8 |
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. 81 |
Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | In a third book of memoirs, Love Among the Daughters, EH
wrote of her studies at Reading University
and Cornell
in the 1920s. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 374 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elspeth Huxley | |
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... |
Textual Production | Kathleen E. Innes | The book had an initial print run of 2,500 copies which sold very quickly. A second impression of 1,500 was printed in October, and further impressions of 1,500 were printed in 1926, 1927, and 1930.... |
Textual Production | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Many of JFLW
's letters (mostly to Oscar
) are held in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
in Los Angeles. Other letter collections are held at the University of Reading
(which has typed... |
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. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Timeline
4 August 1724: The first Thomas Longman bought for £2,282.9s.6d...
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4 August 1724
The first Thomas Longman
bought for £2,282.9s.6d a house in Paternoster Row (later numbered 39, already identified by the Sign of the Ship) and the bookselling and publishing business
based there, whose owner, William Taylor
October 1908: Edith Morley won a battle in her ongoing...
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October 1908
Edith Morley
won a battle in her ongoing struggle against gender discrimination when she became the first female professor at any British university or college.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1926: Reading University received its charter;...
Building item
1926
Reading University
received its charter; it had existed until a couple of years previously as Reading College.
4 September 1957: The Wolfenden Commission published its Report...
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4 September 1957
The Wolfenden Commission
published its Report on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution which recommended the decriminalization of homosexual acts occurring in private between consenting adults over 21, but suggested stricter regulation of prostitution.
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