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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
. |
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. 9 |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
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. 116 |
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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1827: The Church Missionary Society founded an...
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1827
The Church Missionary Society
founded an institution in Africa, Fourah Bay College
, to train native African teachers and missionaries.
1832: The University of Durham was founded....
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The University of Durham was founded.
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