King's College, University of London

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Education Virginia Woolf
Virginia Stephen (later VW ) began studying Latin and classics with Dr George Warr at the Kensington Ladies' Department of King's College, London . She did not take the exams, however.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
2
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Education Evelyn Underhill
EU enlisted in the recently established Ladies' Department of King's College in Kensington.
Greene, Dana. Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life. Crossroad.
11
Reception Evelyn Underhill
EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...
Textual Production Evelyn Underhill
King's College, London , has extensive holdings of EU 's papers: its description of its archive records holdings in other places too. Some of the King's material was shown in an exhibition to mark the...
Family and Intimate relationships Iris Tree
IT 's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree , taught classics at Queen's College , Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College .
Queen's College was founded for the training of...
Family and Intimate relationships Christina Rossetti
At first a private tutor of Italian, Gabriele gained some prestige but no direct financial advantage when he was appointed Professor of Italian at King's College (founded in August 1829).
Rossetti, Christina. “Memoir; Notes”. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, edited by William Michael Rossetti, Norwood, pp. xlv - lxxi; 459.
xlv-xlvi
He was also a...
Education Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby (later AR ) took a diploma in journalism at King's College , London.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
89
Backscheider, Paula R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 27. Gale Research.
27: 299
Education Kathleen Nott
KN attended the highly respected Mary Datchelor School before moving on to King's College , London, for a year. After securing an open exhibition in English (the only subject I could get up...
Education Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Chattopadhyaya (later SN ) continued her studies at English universities, first King's College, London , and then Girton College, Cambridge .
Sengupta, Padmini. Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. Asia Publishing House.
28, 32
Naidu, Sarojini. “Introduction and Notes”. Sarojini Naidu, Selected Letters 1890s to 1940s, edited by Makarand Paranjape, Kali for Women, p. Various pages.
viii, 1n2, 35-7
Family and Intimate relationships Flora Macdonald Mayor
FMM 's father, Joseph Bickersteth Mayor , was a clergyman and a professor of classics, later of moral philosophy, at King's College, University of London .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Oldfield, Sybil. Spinsters of This Parish: The Life and Times of FM Mayor and Mary Sheepshanks. Virago.
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Morgan, Janet. “Introduction: The Squire’s Daughter”. The Rector’s Daughter, Virago, p. v - xii.
vii
He was the eighth in a household...
Textual Production Katherine Mansfield
Four stories by KM , written in about 1908, remained unpublished. Ida Baker gave the manuscripts of these stories, in the 1960s, to Miron Grindea , editor of ADAM International Review. Remaining in the...
Occupation Claire Luckham
CL has served as writer-in-residence at several universities including Derby (1991), where she developed her play The Choice, and King's College , London (2003-04), where she was the first writer-in-residence appointed.
Luckham, Claire. “Afterword to ’The Choice’”. Plays by Women: Volume Ten, edited by Annie Castledine, Methuen Drama, pp. 113-14.
113
“King’s First Artist in Residence”. Comment: The College Newsletter, No. 146, p. 13.
13
Textual Features Marghanita Laski
This book is comprised of talks which she originally gave in 1974 at King's College , London. It examines the effects of ecstatic experiences on society at large and considers their social consequences.
Mary, Baroness Warnock,. “The Greatest Happiness”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4028, p. 632.
632
Education Storm Jameson
After completing her undergraduate degree at Leeds she won, the same year, a John Ruteau Fellowship. It was intended for study at University College, London , but she soon transferred to King's College .
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research.
36: 70
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
55,58, 64
politics Storm Jameson
While at King's , SJ accepted an invitation to join the Eikonoklasts, a group of men that met for weekly discussion in a campus common-room. Jameson recalled with relish that they were skeptics, unavowed anarchists...

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14 August 1829: King's College, University of London, was...

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14 August 1829

King's College, University of London , was founded and given a charter; it opened its doors two years later.

1 May 1848: Queen's College for Women (a secondary, not...

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1 May 1848

Queen's College for Women (a secondary, not a post-secondary institution) was founded in London to educate prospective governesses and improve girls' education generally.

9 April 1858: Queen Victoria signed the royal charter giving...

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9 April 1858

Queen Victoria signed the royal charter giving London University (then comprised of two schools, University College and King's College ) the revolutionary power of offering courses and degrees externally.

1952: Rosalind Franklin began her research in molecular...

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1952

Rosalind Franklin began her research in molecular biology at King's College .

1953: Queen Elizabeth College, London University,...

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1953

Queen Elizabeth College, London University , was incorporated with a royal charter as a mixed-sex institution. Having developed from a subsidiary women's branch of King's College, London , it was folded back into King's in 1985.

1953: Queen Elizabeth College, London University,...

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1953

Queen Elizabeth College, London University , was incorporated with a royal charter as a mixed-sex institution. Having developed from a subsidiary women's branch of King's College, London , it was folded back into King's in 1985.

1975: Anne Sayre, in her biography Rosalind Franklin...

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1975

Anne Sayre , in her biography Rosalind Franklin and DNA, set the record straight about Franklin's part in the Nobel-prize-winning research previously credited exclusively to James D. Watson , Francis Crick , and Maurice Wilkins .

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