University of Durham

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Reception Vita Sackville-West
She received an Honorary DLitt from Durham University in 1950.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
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Employer Carol Rumens
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...
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 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.
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“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(14 November 1924): 8
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.
Reception Jane Ellen Harrison
She received another such degree, an Honorary DLitt from the University of Durham , in 1897.
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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Employer U. A. Fanthorpe
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...
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...
Employer Fleur Adcock
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...

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