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Literary Setting | Storm Jameson | The heroine, Laurence Storm, begins as a nineteen-year-old student in the third year of her classics course at King's College, London
. She is the only woman and the top student in her subject. Laurence... |
Education | Susan Hill | SH
was awarded her BA Honours in English from King's College, London University
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
Friends, Associates | Susan Hill | While studying at King's CollegeSH
, an aspiring writer, wrote to novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson
and her writer husband C. P. Snow
for advice on the profession. The couple answered her letters and even... |
Education | Radclyffe Hall | Later, in her teens, she attended a fashionable day-school in Kensington run by Miss Coles
. She also briefly attended King's College, London
, and spent a year studying in Dresden. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 29-30 |
Performance of text | Nell Dunn | ND
's play Cancer Tales, published the previous year, had its first uncut performance at the King's College, London
, Greenwood Theatre
, 55 Weston Street, London SE1. “Cancer Tales: Nell Dunn’s latest play to premier in London”. King’s College, London: News archive 2003. |
Reception | Maureen Duffy | Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1985. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. The Author. Alexander P. Watt. Autumn 1999: 96 |
Education | Maureen Duffy | MD
attended King's College, London
, where she obtained an honours BA in English in 1956. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 68 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maureen Duffy | During her final year at King's College
, MD
married in England, then went to Italy; her marriage lasted ten years. “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. |
Occupation | Maureen Duffy | MD
was a schoolteacher before becoming a full-time professional writer. She taught for two years at the City Literary Institute
in Drury Lane, London, before attending King's College
. Another teaching experience just after... |
Publishing | Maureen Duffy | |
Literary Setting | Maureen Duffy | The central story line is divided between two male characters. One, an unnamed eighteenth-century historian at Queen's College, London University (a fictional version of King's
), narrates much of the action in letters to his... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Maureen Duffy | In July 2002 MD
was working on her novel Alchemy as well as her book about history and myth (England: The Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert Square), of which... |
Education | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | As an adult, MEC
studied English Literature at King's College for Women
; she took a particular interest in Elizabethan drama. Jackson, Vanessa Furse. “Breaking the Quiet Surface: The Shorter Poems of Mary Coleridge”. English Literature in Transition, Vol. 39 , No. 1, pp. 41-62. 42 Presumably this was during the years when this institution was known as King's College London Ladies' Department |
Employer | May Cannan | MC
's next jobs were working as a secretary at King's College, London
, and then as Assistant Librarian at the Athenaeum
, where her skill at finding obscure references became legendary. Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books. 162-3 |
Education | Anita Brookner | AB
was educated at James Allen's Girls' School
in Dulwich, South London. She embarked on a general BA at King's College, London
but found the course boring. At the suggestion of a lunchtime lecturer... |
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