“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Cambridge University
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Education | Susan Miles | She also attended more than one school in London. Novelist John Cowper Powys
(whose lectures she had attended) wrote her a recommendation for a Cambridge
scholarship, but she was not successful in gaining one. |
Cultural formation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
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 |
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