“The Decade in Review 1997-2007”. MuggleNet.
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 | J. K. Rowling | These books have been credited with single-handedly raising literacy rates among children. |
Reception | Willa Muir | |
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 |
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. 231 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 63: 440 |
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. 240 Hickok, Kathleen. Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Greenwood Press. 215 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Willa Muir | At twenty years old, Willa Anderson (later WM
) met her first love, Cecil Wilmot Morrison
, a medical student at St Andrews University
and a star university rugby player. Their engagement, made in the... |
Timeline
About 1411: The University of St Andrews was founded...
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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
University College, Dundee, was founded.
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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