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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 | |
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 |
Cultural formation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
Education | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen Royds
(later Innes) received her Teacher's Diploma in Theory (Class I) and Practice, from Cambridge University. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 23-4, 244 |
Education | Susanna Centlivre | It was said that she read Molière
at twelve, and that she disguised herself as a boy in order to study at Cambridge University
. All this, however, belongs to a dubious area of fictionalisation... |
Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | |
Education | Q. D. Leavis | She won the Charity Reeves and Thomas Montefiore Prizes to begin her doctoral dissertation, also at Cambridge
. |
Education | Anna Eliza Bray | At home, she taught herself Italian and also received instruction in Latin from Michael Slegg
, a friend of her brother's from 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. Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall. 103-4 |
Education | Maggie Gee | MG
gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge
by Queenie Leavis
, whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats
in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis |
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. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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 | 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 | 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. |