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Textual Production Anne Stevenson
This book is based on the three Newcastle /Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures for 2016, plus a lecture on Sylvia Plath given at Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2013, and others in rhythm and sounds given at Durham University .
Bloodaxe Books. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/.
Textual Production Lilian Bowes Lyon
LBL 's work has been reprinted in The World Split Open, 1984, edited by Louise Bernikow ; it has been discussed by Margaret Willy (in Essays and Studies, 1952), and Anne Treneer (in...
Reception Anne Stevenson
AS has held a number of awards: a Scottish Arts Council award, 1974, a Welsh Arts Council award, 1980, a Northern Arts Literary Fellowship at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham , 1981-2,
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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and...
Reception Mary Stewart
MS was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Durham University , her alma mater, at a ceremony in Durham Cathedral.
Hutchison, Chris. “Lady Mary Florence Elinor Stewart, Doctor of Letters”. Durham University Website.
Reception Jane Ellen Harrison
She received another such degree, an Honorary DLitt from the University of Durham , in 1897.
Reception Mary Stewart
The degree was awarded as part of the celebrations for the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of Durham . The speech introducing MS at the ceremony was given by Professor...
Reception Helen Waddell
HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...
Reception Vernon Lee
VL received an Honorary DLitt from Durham University : she added the degree to her signature on a letter to The Times on 14 November this year.
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
353n1
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(14 November 1924): 8
Reception Harriette Wilson
Contemporary admirers of HW on literary grounds included Walter Scott , who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out
Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton.
218
a better writer than Teresia Constantia Phillips or others in the...
Reception Kathleen Raine
In 1974 she was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester . Two more such degrees followed from Durham in 1979 and the University of Caen in France, 1987.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
Reception Vita Sackville-West
She received an Honorary DLitt from Durham University in 1950.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
364
Reception Edith Sitwell
She received further honorary degrees from Durham (June 1948), Oxford (June 1951), and Sheffield (1955).
Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
267-8, 293-4, 315-16
Reception Ethel Smyth
ES 's musical career earned her two honorary Doctorates of Music: from the University of Durham in 1911, and from Oxford in 1926 (the first woman so honoured who was not part of the Oxford...
Occupation Jane Ellen Harrison
In March 1895 she received the first honorary LLD awarded to a woman by the University of Aberdeen , and two years later she received an honorary DLitt from the University of Durham for her scholarship.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press.
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Occupation Kathleen Jamie
She has spent two periods working at the Centre for Medical Humanities as a Fellow of Durham University 's Institute for Advanced Studies, the second of them in early 2012.
“Launch of ’Frissure’: a collaboration between Kathleen Jamie, Brigid Collins and CMH”. Centre for Medical Humanities.

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The Church Missionary Society founded an institution in Africa, Fourah Bay College , to train native African teachers and missionaries.

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The University of Durham was founded.

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