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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Education | Mary Stewart | 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... |
Employer | Mary Stewart | 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... |
Employer | Mary Stewart | MS
was asked to lecture part-time at St Hild's College
of education for women (a part of the university) In 1975 this was merged with Durham's college of education for men as the College of... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Stewart | 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. Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers. 3 |
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... |
Education | Mary Stewart | Mary Rainbow
(later MS
) received her BA in English with First Class Honours from Durham University
, where she had enrolled in 1935. Stewart, Mary. About Mary Stewart. Musson. 5 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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