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Education | Jessie White Mario | She arrived in London determined to study medicine so that she could serve as a field nurse during Garibaldi
's campaigns. She was refused entry to fourteen London hospitals. On 10 July 1856, a representative... |
Textual Features | Hilary Mantel | At her selective convent school school Carmel McBain is thrown closely together with Karina (child of East European immigrant parents), because they are the only two children at the school from poor homes beyond its... |
Textual Production | Bathsua Makin | It was dedicated to Queen Anne
, wife of James I (who died on 2 March this year). It seems that this was to be printed as a pamphlet; one sample sheet survives in a... |
Education | Jane Loudon | After she was married she set out to educate herself in her husband's area of expertise: botany. She attended lectures given by John Lindley
, first professor of botany at London University
, and took... |
Occupation | Ling Shuhua | From 1956 to 1960, LS taught Chinese literature at Nanyang University
, and lived in both Singapore and London. She wrote and travelled, taking trips to Japan and Hong Kong. Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield. 309 |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Ruth Prawer
enrolled to read for a BA in English at Queen Mary College
, University of London
, from which she went straight on to a graduate degree. Crane, Ralph J. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Twayne. 3 |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Ruth Prawer
received her MA (a degree which was then London's equivalent to the PhD) from London University
as a member of Queen Mary College
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Production | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Ruth Prawer
's London MA thesis (in the days when London University
offered no doctorate, and the MA degree, and thesis, was equal in weight to the PhDs of other universities) was on The Short... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Jex-Blake | In this essay SJB
focuses particularly on the January 1878 decision by the University of London
to admit women to the study of medicine on equal terms with men. This decision, she writes, made on... |
Education | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen Royds
(later Innes) graduated from the University of London with a BA (Second Class Honours) in Modern Languages (English and German). Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 25 |
Education | Kathleen E. Innes | About 1910-11, she spent four terms studying under author and naturalist William Henry Hudson
in a University Extension programme taught at Gresham College
. She graduated from this course first in her class and was... |
Occupation | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | In 1826 HPBB
founded the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
and at about the same date played an instrumental role towards the founding of London University
. He authored several critical and historical... |
Occupation | Jane Ellen Harrison | First inspired by Erwin Rohde
's book on Greek understandings of the afterlife, published in 1890, JEH
now began to turn her research interests to pre-Olympian spiritual practices and expressions, particularly (but not exclusively) those... |
Education | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was educated at Dresden in Germany, then at Cheltenham Ladies' College
(a secondary school), Queen's College
, and Bedford College
. She graduated from London University
with a BA in Arts, having studied... |
Publishing | Charlotte Godley | This first version was printed at Plymouth for private circulation only, at the urging of A. P. Newton
, a professor in imperial history at the University of London
, who contributed an introduction. The... |
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