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Occupation | Marie Stopes | She also taught at London University, and became a Fellow of University College, London
, in 1910. At this stage her research focussed on paleobotany, the study of fossil plants. (Her work in the field... |
Occupation | Arthur Hugh Clough | He was appointed to the Chair of English Language and Literature at University College, London
(which operated no such religious discrimination as Oxford), and later worked as an examiner for the Education Office in London. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Material Conditions of Writing | John Oliver Hobbes | She wrote it during 1891 and 1892, while she was a student at University College, London
, and dedicated it to Alfred Goodwin
, her academic mentor, who had died in the February of 1892... |
Literary responses | Emma Caroline Wood | Not all responses to this novel were negative. Professor Henry Morley
of University College, London
, wrote an unsolicited letter which was printed and circulated to defend Sorrow on the Sea from the prevailing charges... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophie Veitch | SV
's elder sister, Zepherina Philadelphia
(whose name on marriage became Smith), was born on 1 April 1836 at Sopley in Hampshire. After the family returned from Palestine she became successively an early student at... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Frankau | JF
's brother James
was born in 1853. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Mozley | Her next brother, Charles Robert, became what would later be called a dropout, causing expense and embarrassment to his family. Her younger brother, Francis William Newman
, became Professor of Latin at the ecumenical University College, London |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Fleeming (pronounced Fleming) Jenkin had great abilities that were evident from an early age. His biographer, Robert Louis Stevenson
, rates his mother's influence over him very high, and admires though he cannot wholly approve... |
Employer | A. E. Housman | AEH
, who had been working as a clerk at the Patent Office
and pursuing his scholarly interests in his own time at the British Museum
, was offered a Chair in Latin at University College, London
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Employer | A. S. Byatt | ASB
was a lecturer at University College
, London. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Education | Charlotte Mew | CM
later attended lectures at University College, London
, and read widely in English and French. She particularly admired George Eliot
. Mew, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Collected Poems and Prose, edited by Val Warner, Carcanet and Virago, p. ix - xxii. ix |
Education | Betty Miller | Betty Spiro (later BM
) received a diploma in journalism from University College, London
after a two-year course. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii. ix |
Education | Penelope Mortimer | Penelope Fletcher (later PM
) was educated at private schools all over the place, Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26. 26 Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion. 58 |
Education | Monica Furlong | From Harrow County Girls' SchoolMF
won a place at University College, London
, but she did not take a degree (something that she later regretted). Higher education for girls was not part of her... |
Education | Emily Hickey | She continued her education by attending lectures at University College, London
, where she earned her Cambridge Certificate. She became skilled in Anglo-Saxon and later undertook several translations. Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More. 22, 24 |
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