Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London

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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.
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.
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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...
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.
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...
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...
Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
Royal Holloway College holds a manuscript of twenty-one chapters of this novel.
“Harraden, Beatrice 1864-1936”. AIM25: Royal Holloway, University of London.
OCLC WorldCat records a manuscript, part handwritten and part typewritten, but does not give its location.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The book had a Tauchnitz edition in...
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/.
In 1930 she was awarded an annual...
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.
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Education Beatrice Harraden
BH was educated at Dresden in Germany, then at Cheltenham Ladies' College (a secondary school), Queen's College , and Bedford College . She graduated from London University with a BA in Arts, having studied...
Occupation Beatrice Harraden
BH undertook various kinds of public service. She sat on the English committee for awarding the Femina Vie Heureuse prize, and became a governor of Bedford College in 1929. During the 1930s she was a...
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.
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The pen with which she is said...
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
Education Jane Gardam
She was twelve when she overheard her English teacher telling her parents that she was clever, well ahead of the standard for her age. By this time she was attending Saltburn High School for Girls...

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