“Harraden, Beatrice 1864-1936”. AIM25: Royal Holloway, University of London.
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ivy Compton-Burnett | The protagonist, a clergyman's daughter, lives up to her name. She is a child at her mother's graveside in the book's opening scene: by the age of thirty-three she has repeatedly sacrificed her hopes of... |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | The present Royal Holloway College (merged with Bedford)
holds correspondence with Methuen and Co.
dating from 1907-09 which includes letters of advice from BH
. A projected book on Ruskin
is discussed and another, on... |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | Royal Holloway College
holds a manuscript of twenty-one chapters of this novel. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | BH
is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Anna Swanwick | In May 1898 and in 1899 AS
addressed large audiences at the Jubilee ceremonies at both Queen's
and Bedford College
. On the former occasion she was introduced to Queen Victoria
. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 223 |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | In March 1908 BH
read a chapter of Ships that Pass in the Night at a concert given by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 276 |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | The copyright statement of this book was dated 1896, the preface September 1896, and the title-page 1897. It does not appear to have been published in Britain. Preface and dedication are signed by Harraden's co-author |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | BH
also wrote for the Bedford College
Magazine and the Cheltenham Ladies' College
Magazine: for the former in 1915 she described her war-work with the Commission for Relief in Belgium
. On 17 June... |
Publishing | Eleanor Rathbone | Rathbone's chapter originated as a paper entitled The Harvest of the Women's Movement, which she had delivered at Bedford College
in November 1935 as one of the Fawcett Lecture series and printed under the... |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | BH
set her name to the earliest of her several letters to the Times, this one together with Hertha Ayrton
and Mary Augusta Ward
, as an effort to raise money for a building... |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | BH
and Elizabeth Robins
wrote jointly to the Times Literary Supplement, advocating an extension of the Sussex Hospital for Women and Children
and advertising a literary fundraising bazaar to be held in Brighton. Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, p. 750. 750 |
politics | Anna Swanwick | Well before she became a feminist, AS
on her first arrival in London became interested in the plight of little girls whose working-class parents kept them at home to mind the baby while their brothers... |
politics | Anna Swanwick | Before holding the figurehead position of Visitor to Bedford College
, she had already served in the capacity of lady visitor (with responsibility to maintain discipline: in effect a chaperone) in the mathematics classes given... |
politics | Anna Swanwick | The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore... |
politics | George Eliot | GE
was always ambivalent about the struggle for women's rights. This ambivalence may have been fed by the fact that her situation with Lewes made her peculiarly vulnerable to public attack of a personal flavour... |
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1849: Bedford College, initially known as the Ladies'...
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Bedford College
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in Bedford Square, or Mrs Reid's Ladies College
, was founded.
1849: Bedford College, initially known as the Ladies'...
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1849
Bedford College
, initially known as the Ladies' College
in Bedford Square, or Mrs Reid's Ladies College
, was founded.
February 1858: Bessie Rayner Parkes described to George...
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Bessie Rayner Parkes
described to George Eliot
, in a letter, the limited company established by the Langham Place group to support The English Woman's Journal.
1859: Future anti-slavery lecturer and Bedford...
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1859
Future anti-slavery lecturer and Bedford College
graduate Sarah Parker Remond
, an African American from the northern US, arrived in England.
12 October 1874: The College for Working Women was established...
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12 October 1874
The College for Working Women
was established in Fitzroy Street in London.
1886: Royal Holloway College for women was founded...
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1886
Royal Holloway College
for women was founded at Egham in Surrey, twenty miles from London, and opened by Queen Victoria
.
1886: Royal Holloway College for women was founded...
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1886
Royal Holloway College
for women was founded at Egham in Surrey, twenty miles from London, and opened by Queen Victoria
.
31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...
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31 October 1910
Frances Olive Underhill
, a graduate of Royal Holloway College
, was appointed by E. W. B. Nicholson
Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian
: the first woman so appointed in England, after considerable infighting and...
1913: Caroline Spurgeon became the first woman...
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1913
Caroline Spurgeon
became the first woman professor in Britain when she was named Professor of English Literature at Bedford College
.
11 July 1919: University women from Britain, the USA, and...
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11 July 1919
University women from Britain, the USA, and Canada met in London to plan the founding of the International Federation of University Women , which held an inaugural conference at Bedford College
, London, in 1920.
1948: The University of London appointed Professor...
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1948
The University of London
appointed Professor Lilian Penson
vice-chancellor, the first time a woman held this position at a British university.
Early 1975: Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company was founded...
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Early 1975
Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company
was founded as a result of plans by a London co-operative community arts resource centre, Inter-Action
, for a season of gay plays to follow their successful women's season.
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