University of St Andrews

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Wealth and Poverty Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham , Girton , and Somerville College s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
Textual Production Sarah Murray
The full title was yet longer: A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, to the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and to the Curiosities in the District of Craven, in the...
Textual Features Willa Muir
Her life-long frustration over gender inequality remains at the centre of the book. As an undergraduate at St Andrews she observes how the patriarchal Law rated us as second-class citizens (we could not vote) and...
Reception Willa Muir
Perhaps because WM 's writing career ran alongside that of her more famous husband , and because she published in collaboration with him, her own work has been subordinated to his and for a time...
Reception Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Professor James Stuart , an old friend who was currently Rector of St Andrews University , recommended that this institution award MGF an Honorary LL.D to recognise her work for the higher education of women...
Reception Muriel Spark
Three more Scottish universities followed Strathclyde's lead: MS received Honorary DLitts from Edinburgh University in 1989, Aberdeen in 1995, and St Andrews in 1998. In 1995, she received a DUniv from Heriot-Watt University , where...
Reception Helen Waddell
HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...
Reception Marina Warner
Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...
Reception Fay Weldon
FW was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of St Andrews , only one year after she had finally collected the undergraduate degree she had earned years before from the same institution.
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo.
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
63: 440
Reception J. K. Rowling
These books have been credited with single-handedly raising literacy rates among children.
“The Decade in Review 1997-2007”. MuggleNet.
They have generated income for many others besides JKR . Firms awarded the contracts for Harry Potter merchandise include Marks and Spencer for...
politics Anna Swanwick
The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore...
Occupation John Stuart Mill
In 1867 Mill was made rector of the University of St Andrews .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Material Conditions of Writing Willa Muir
As a student at St Andrews University , WM spent two years on the editorial committee for the student journal College Echoes.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates Dora Greenwell
Among DG 's other writer friends were Elizabeth Charles , Margaret Hunt , and Sarah Tytler .
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
297-8, 429
Bett, Henry. Dora Greenwell. Epworth Press.
18-20, 22
Gray, Janet. “Dora Greenwell’s Commonplace Book”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
57
, No. 1, pp. 47-74.
50, 51
Gray, Janet. “The Sewing Contest: Christina Rossetti and the Other Women”. A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, Vol.
8
, No. 2, pp. 233-57.
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Hickok, Kathleen. Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Greenwood Press.
215
She was also acquainted with Longfellow , William Bell Scott
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Colin Campbell
Lord Colin Campbell, born on 8 March 1853 to George Douglas Campbell , eighth duke of Argyll, and his wife, born Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower ,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Douglas Campbell
“The Late Lord Colin Campbell”. The Scotsman, Scotsman Publications, p. 7.
(19 June 1895): 7
was described...

Timeline

About 1411: The University of St Andrews was founded...

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About 1411

The University of St Andrews was founded by Henry Wardlaw , Bishop of St Andrews, Scotland.

1451: After a petition by James II of Scotland,...

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1451

After a petition by James II of Scotland , initiated by William Turnbull , the University of Glasgow was founded under a Bull of Pope Nicholas V .

3 November 1729: Professor Thomas Simson Chandos of the University...

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3 November 1729

Professor Thomas Simson Chandos of the University of St Andrews published The System of the Womb . . ..

October 1865: Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's...

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October 1865

Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's licence through the Society of Apothecaries : this began her medical career, after her rejection by the Universities of London , Edinburgh , St Andrews , Oxford , and Cambridge .

February 1877: The Senate of St Andrews University established...

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February 1877

The Senate of St Andrews University established a distance qualification for women: the Licentiate, or LA, of equal standard to the MA (which was and is in Scotland a first degree).

1881: University College, Dundee, was founded....

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1881

29 September 1904: Gertrude von Petzold, a German Unitarian,...

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29 September 1904

Gertrude von Petzold , a German Unitarian , became the first woman to act as a minister in England since before the Victorian age.

1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...

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1926

New statutes at Cambridge University first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.

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