University of Durham

GS served for three years as president of English PEN . One month before her term was due to expire she resigned her presidency in order to draw attention to what she said was an...

While studying at the University of Durham Mary Rainbow (later MS ) continued to write, but poetry rather than fiction, with the dream of becoming a lecturer on poetry at Oxford. Later, when she...

Five hundred people were detained under this law in its first six months. On release they could be re-arrested (as First was as she stood in a phone booth outside the prison, about to tell...

In LondonFA worked as a librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (which bought her a few hours of solitude each day to write in) until she took the plunge and became a...

In 1941 MS was offered a part-time position (six lectures a week) as a lecturer in the English Department of Durham University , which was short of staff because of enlistment in the armed forces...

MS was asked to lecture part-time at St Hild's College of education for women (a part of the university)

After becoming known as a poet Fanthorpe held several writer-in-residence posts. The offer of a year as Arts Council writer in residence at St Martin's College , Lancaster in 1983 moved the hospital to give...

She has also held writer-in-residence positions at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham (as Northern Arts Literary Fellow, 1988-90), Queen's University, Belfast (1991-3 and again 1995-8), University College, Cork (1994), and the Stockholm University (Spring...

Mary Rainbow (later MS ) received her BA in English with First Class Honours from Durham University , where she had enrolled in 1935.

She was involved in both university social activities and sports. She became the president of both the Women's Union and the Literary Society as well as participating in college theatricals. The last may perhaps have...