McCrum, Robert. “What lies beneath”. Guardian.com.uk.
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Education | Sarah Waters | Having always been an avid reader but consuming nothing memorable, McCrum, Robert. “What lies beneath”. Guardian.com.uk. Brace, Marianne. “Bodice-grippers with staying power”. The Independent. |
Publishing | Sarah Waters | Her London University
PhD dissertation, Wolfskins and Togas: lesbian and gay historical fictions, 1870 to the present, is now digitally available through the British Library
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays
, Harriet Martineau
, Anthony Trollope
,... |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Ruth Prawer
enrolled to read for a BA in English at Queen Mary College
, University of London
, from which she went straight on to a graduate degree. Crane, Ralph J. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Twayne. 3 |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Ruth Prawer
received her MA (a degree which was then London's equivalent to the PhD) from London University
as a member of Queen Mary College
. 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. |
Occupation | Constance Garnett | Following the successful completion of her studies, Constance Black (later CG
) was appointed as a lecturer in classical studies at Newnham College
. However, it was only a single-term appointment and she soon began... |
Education | Eva Figes | Eva Unger (later EF
) attended Queen Mary College, University of London
; she received a BA (honours) degree in English. Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press. |
Reception | Eva Figes | EF
was made an Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary and Westfield College
, London University. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Education | Mary Butts | MB
was enrolled as a General Student at Westfield College, London University
. Blondel, Nathalie, and Mary Butts. “Introduction”. The Journals of Mary Butts, edited by Nathalie Blondel and Nathalie Blondel, Yale University Press, pp. 1-41. 3 Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company. 21 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Butts | MB
began while a student at Westfield College
between 1909 and 1912 to write poems about the stigma of same-sex relationships and more generally about sexuality in contemporary society. Blondel, Nathalie, and Mary Butts. “Introduction”. The Journals of Mary Butts, edited by Nathalie Blondel and Nathalie Blondel, Yale University Press, pp. 1-41. 3 Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company. 21 |
Occupation | Sir Walter Besant | On 28 September 1883 SWB
chaired a meeting from which came the founding of the Society of Authors
. From 1868 he served as secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund
. He also helped establish... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nina Bawden | Nina's father, Charles Mabey (actually christened Mario Angelo Bennati), born a month after his parents were married, became a marine engineer with the P and O Company
. He had left school at eleven and... |
Textual Production | Jane Austen | Volume the Third was bought by the British Library
. The incomplete manuscript of The Watsons was bought at this sale by a private buyer who placed it on deposit at Queen Mary and Westfield College |
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1882: Westfield College for women was founded in...
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Westfield College
for women was founded in North London.
1882: Westfield College for women was founded in...
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1882
Westfield College
for women was founded in North London.
1887: The institution which became Queen Mary College...
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1887: The institution which became Queen Mary College...
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1902: Westfield College, a residential college...
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1902
Westfield College
, a residential college of higher education for women, was admitted to the status of a School of London University
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February 1987: The St Hilda Community, activists for Anglican...
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February 1987
The St Hilda Community
, activists for Anglican
women's ordination, held its first Eucharist service in the student chapel of Queen Mary College
, London, celebrated by an ordained American, Suzanne Fageol
.
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