Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London
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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. |
Occupation | Susan Miles | She then taught ethics and philosophy at Bedford College
—rather briefly, for she decided that teaching was not her metier, and resigned to become a full-time writer. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Education | Willa Muir | The Carnegie Trust
funded Willa Anderson (later WM
) to work on a thesis on the problems raised by sex in education at Bedford College
, London; she never finished the thesis. Allen, Kirsty, and Willa Muir. “Introduction”. Imagined Selves, edited by Kirsty Allen and Kirsty Allen, Canongate Classics, p. v - xiii. vii Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Willa Muir | After leaving Bedford College
, WM
began lecturing to Bryant and May
female factory workers at the Mansfield House University Settlement
in Canning Town in London. It was at the Bryant and May match... |
Employer | Ann Oakley | AO
was a Research Officer in the Social Research Unit
at Bedford College, University of London
. Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press. |
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... |
Employer | F. Mabel Robinson | FMR
hoped to become a painter, and devoted most of [her] girlhood to painting Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke. 326 |
Education | Carol Rumens | |
Employer | Jo Shapcott | JS
began teaching English at Rolle College
in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth
, which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then... |
Education | Freya Stark | FS
studied at Bedford College, University of London
. Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House. 33, 39 |
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 |
politics | Anna Swanwick | AS
had the honour of presenting the first lady graduates from Bedford College Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 170 Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 170 |
politics | Anna Swanwick | AS
became for a five-year term the Visitor to Bedford College
: the first female one appointed, in succession to distinguished male scholars. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 170 |
Education | Anna Swanwick | Years later, sitting in the capacity of what amounted to a chaperone in classes taught by Francis William Newman
at Bedford College
, she noticed a slight error in his exposition, told him of it... |
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... |
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