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Occupation
Anne Devlin
The success of AD
's first play, Ourselves Alone, in 1985 led to several new opportunities for her. She became an associate director at the Royal Court Theatre
in London and took up positions...
Family and Intimate relationships
Agnes Giberne
AG
's paternal aunts were closely associated in their youth with the young John Henry Newman
and his brother Francis W. Newman
. Sarah married a curate working for William Wilson (AG
's grandfather)....
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Education
Susan Hill
Some years later she had a flirtation with the scholarly life that led her to register for a degree in Shakespeare
Studies at the University of Birmingham
. She abandoned this degree after a term...
Publishing
Samuel Johnson
The Johnson Dictionary Project (University of Birmingham
) now offers a searchable online text of both the first and the revised fourth edition.
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
31, 69
Textual Production
Constance Naden
CN
had meanwhile, three years before Gladstone's essay, given up writing poetry, which she came to see as essentially lightweight. Her friends tended to blame for this the influence of Robert Lewins
, who later...
Publishing
Constance Naden
During the same year (two years since its founding) Mason Science College
(later part of Birmingham University) launched a college magazine. The first number of the first volume carried a sonnet by CN
entitled Hercules...
Reception
Constance Naden
While still a student CN
was winning awards for her science essays: the Paxton prize in 1885 for an essay on geology, and in 1887 Mason College
's Heslop gold medal for one on Induction...
Reception
Constance Naden
The Constance Naden Medal was still being awarded at the University of Birmingham
, where there is also a bust of the poet and room named for her, into the twenty-first century.
Education
Constance Naden
CN
became a student at Mason College
(also known as Mason Science College), where she studied physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, physiology, and geology.
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
18, 22,67-8
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
26, 51-2
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Friends, Associates
Constance Naden
CN
met Dr Robert Lewins
, of the Army Medical Department
, at Southport on the River Mersey in Western Lancashire, in 1876. Described as a man of great culture, of wide travel and...
Timeline
By April 1799: The Church Missionary Society was founded...
1 October 1880: Mason College or Mason Science College in...
Building item
1 October 1880
Mason College
or Mason Science College in Birmingham, founded at a cost of more than £200,000 by Sir Josiah Mason
, who had made his fortune out of nibs for pens, opened its doors to students.
Early 1900: The University of Birmingham was founded...
11 July 1919: University women from Britain, the USA, and...
Building item
11 July 1919
University women from Britain, the USA, and Canada met in London to plan the founding of the International Federation of University Women, which held an inaugural conference at Bedford College
, London, in 1920.
1951: Theatre historian Allardyce Nicoll established...
Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham.