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politics | Virginia Woolf | VW
rejected on principle an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Manchester
. In March 1939 she rejected another honorary doctorate, from the University of Liverpool
. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 172 Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 155 |
Occupation | Jeanette Winterson | In spring 2012 her appointment was announced (for the autumn) as professor of creative writing at Manchester University
. Carter, Helen. “Creative writing professorship for Winterson”. The Guardian, p. 15. 15 |
Education | Alison Uttley | Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) was one of only four students to graduate with a BSc in Physics from Victoria University of Manchester
, and the first woman to do so in a regular... |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | Yggdrasill, the magazine of Ashburne House
, the women's residence at Victoria University of Manchester
, printed a poem by Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) about university life which contained the refrain Argument. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 57 |
Reception | Alison Uttley | AU
received an Honorary DLitt from Manchester University
, where she had formerly studied physics. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 243-4 |
Education | Alison Uttley | From Lady Manners School Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) won a Major County Scholarship to Owens College
in Manchester, then part of the federal Victoria University, but incorporated in 1903 into Victoria University of Manchester |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | Dr Irvin Kerlan
of the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota
, bought a substantial number Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 219 |
Employer | Marie Stopes | MS
taught at the Victoria University of Manchester
(now Manchester 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. |
Textual Production | Anna Steele | A collection of 56 letters from William Michael Rossetti
to AS
, written between 1888 and 1911, is held by the University of Manchester
. The National Archives Catalogue. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/default.asp. |
Education | Gillian Slovo | GS
attended Manchester University
, where she took her BA in 1974. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jean Rhys | JR
's father, Dr William Rees (or Rhys) Williams
, was the second and less-favoured son of a Welsh Anglican clergyman. Sources give both spellings of her father's second name, with no explanation for the... |
Education | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
took first-class honours in her degree in law from Manchester University
, after cramming for her final exams. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 44 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Christabel Pankhurst | In 1904, with urging from her recently-made friend Esther Roper
, CP
considered studying law at Lincoln's Inn, as her father had done before her. Her application was dismissed on the grounds that she would... |
Education | Dora Marsden | DM
studied for her BA at Owen's College, Manchester University
. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 14, 21 |
politics | Dora Marsden | DM
, Mary Gawthorpe
, and Rona Robinson
were arrested in their academic gowns at Manchester University
after protesting against the recent start of force-feeding at Birmingham's Winson Green Prison
. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 36 Barash, Carol. “Dora Marsden’s Feminism, the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Freewoman</span>, and the Gender Politics of Early Modernism”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 49 , No. 1, pp. 31-56. 39 |
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