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Textual Features | Emma Jane Worboise | Arnold represented a fascinating subject for a biographer interested in the shades of religious faith and their interaction with secular politics. Worboise relates his experiences as a member of the Senate of the new London University |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | The group's name, derived from the area of London in which several of its members lived (the area that includes the University of London
) flags a key feature: it met in personal spaces and... |
Residence | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
moved from a house at 45 George Street, just south of Blackfriars Bridge, to Store Street (house number unknown) near the present London University
buildings. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin. 131 |
Education | H. G. Wells | Having initially left school at thirteen, HGW
later attended the Normal School
which later became the Royal College of Science. His most important teacher and inspiration was Thomas Huxley
. He failed his final exams... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | Many of her essays dealt with women's issues and many were topical. University Degrees for Women (2 June 1877) and University Examinations for Women (2 and 9 February 1878) responded respectively to Parliament
's refusal... |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | In the wake of Robert Elsmere's success, MAW
sought to prove the feasibility of the New Brotherhood which she had described in her novel through the foundation of a similar philanthropic organisation. As she... |
Education | Michelene Wandor | Later again she studied music at Trinity College of Music
and the University of London
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Stone | Cumberland as place of residence would accord with her having married Thomas Stone
, as he became a Divinity Lecturer at St Bee's Theological College
in Cumberland in 1834. In 1838, he moved to London... |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | MS
had thought about biographical writing in 1830, and suggested by letter to John Murray
on 9 August that she should write something (biographical, historical, or literary) for his Family Library. Clemit, Patricia. “Mary Shelley and William Godwin: a literary-political partnership, 1823-1836”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 285-95. 290-1 |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Arnot Robertson | The couple met while out sailing. They had one child, a son. The papers of the Commonwealth Press Union are held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies
within London University
's School of Advanced Study |
Education | Michèle Roberts | After her BA degree, she studied librarianship at the University of London
, for a two-year postgraduate qualification: a year of practical work, a year of lectures, then exams. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. Michèle Roberts. http://www.micheleroberts.co.uk/index.htm. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago. 19,62-3, 76 |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Most of ATR
's unpublished manuscripts and letters are held by the University of London
and Eton College
libraries. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 333 |
Residence | Henry Handel Richardson | Ethel Robertson (who later wrote as HHR
) moved from Strasbourg to London when her husband
was appointed professor of German at London University
. Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge University Press. 154, 160, 162 |
Literary Setting | Edna O'Brien | In this novel, Kate Brady (again the narrator) works in a dismal grocery shop in Dublin and has an affair with Eugene Gaillard, a documentary filmmaker and married man. After being dragged back to her... |
Education | Susan Miles | Having enrolled as a mature student, SM
gained her first-class honours BA in philosophy from London University
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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