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Characters | Frances Browne | The second story, Found in the Far North, is narrated in the first person by a young Cambridge
student from Norwich whose failure to heed his father's advice about choosing his company with care... |
Characters | A. S. Byatt | ASB
says that this book and its three successors are about the desirability of an androgynous mind. Friel, James, and Jenny Newman. “A. S. Byatt”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction through Interviews, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Hodder Headline, pp. 36-53. 43 |
Characters | Jane Gardam | The stories are set in and around a hotel, formerly an eighteenth-century colonial mansion, in Jamaica at the close of the expensive, fashionable season, and most of them feature English people startled, shocked, or reinvigorated... |
Characters | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Cultural formation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
Education | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
achieved a Class II in the English Tripos (the first of two exams deciding class of degree awarded) at Cambridge
. This was the first year that women were awarded degrees, at least in name. Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 55 “Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: A Chronology”. University of Cambridge. |
Education | Lady Rachel Russell | Mary Berry
, who wrote that LRR
spent her youth in those occupations which it has been agreed to call the education of females, Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. x |
Education | Elizabeth von Arnim | May was a strong student. In the Senior Certificate public examination in July 1883 she emerged top in history among pupils at all Ealing schools, and she particularly impressed her examiners with an essay about... |
Education | Selima Hill | SH
received her BA in English from Cambridge University
, after a course interrupted by illness, which therefore took longer than the norm. Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol. 6 , pp. 39-40. 39 British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Education | John Donne | He was admitted while very young to Oxford University
(where he did not, however, take his degree) and later to Lincoln's Inn
. He was a law student when he wrote most of his love-poetry... |
Education | Mary Webb | Mary Meredith (later MW
) attended Cambridge University
extension lectures on literature and history, until ill health intervened. Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth. 74-5 |
Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | Encouraged by Mary Paley
, one of Newnham College
's first students, JEH
took and passed the Cambridge University
Examination for Women. She finished as top candidate and received a scholarship from Newnham. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 33-4 |
Education | May Sinclair | MS
visited Professor Henry Melvill Gwatkin
at Cambridge
, and was treated to a series of conversations on history, philosophy, and metaphysics which amounted to informal tutorials. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 66-7 |
Education | Margaret Drabble | MD
received a BA in English with double first-class honours from Cambridge University
(Newnham College
). Sadler, Lynn Veach. Margaret Drabble. Twayne. 4 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. 192 |
Education | Jane Barker | She later had some expertise in medicine, which it seems she may have learned from her brother or some of his Cambridge
friends. Biographer Kathryn King
concludes that JB
had a more than passing acquaintance... |