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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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
Education | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
defended her Cambridge
dissertation, which was supervised by I. A. Richards
, with E. M. Forster
as external advisor. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 130, 132 “Obituary: Mrs. Q.D. Leavis”. Times, p. 16. 16 |
Education | Toru Dutt | TD
and Aru
were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop. |
Employer | Winsome Pinnock | In her late teens WP
planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as... |
Employer | Q. D. Leavis | |
Employer | Anita Brookner | AB
became the first woman Slade Professor of art at Cambridge University
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. 144 |
Employer | Elaine Feinstein | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Coleridge | Derwent lost his faith in orthodox Anglicanism for some years following his time at Cambridge
but regained it after meeting his wife, and became an advocate of a broad theological approach. As an Anglican clergyman... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Jebb | AJ
's husband John Jebb
resigned his Church of England
preferments including his Cambridge
lectureship. Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, pp. 1: 1 - 227. 104 Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , pp. 597 - 604, 661. 600 |
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