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University of Aberdeen
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Occupation | Christian Milne | One of her employers was Dr Jack, principal of King's College, Aberdeen
, whose wife was sympathetic and whose volumes of Shakespeare she used to borrow. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Gordon | Her father, Thomas Gordon
, was an academic philosopher, Professor of Humanity at King's College, Aberdeen
. He loved music and was for years a leading light of the (all-male) Aberdeen Musical Society
. He died in 1797. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's father, Robert Adamson
, educated at Edinburgh University
, became Professor of Logic and Metaphysics successively at Owens College
(later merged in Manchester University), and the Universities of Aberdeen
and then Glasgow
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Catherine Hume | Mary Catherine's Scottish father, Joseph Hume
, was a Radical Member of Parliament, who sat indefatigably on committees and held other positions such as Lord Rector of Aberdeen University
. In parliament he reportedly spoke... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jackie Kay | JK
's birth father, Jonathan O., was a graduate student from (as she discovered belatedly) Nzagha in Ukpor, Nigeria, who had studied at other British universities and was at the University of Aberdeen
when... |
Education | Ali Smith | AS
earned her Master of Letters (MLitt) from the University of Aberdeen, having already received the Bobby Aitken Memorial Prize for Poetry, placed top in her Senior Honours Class, and won the illustrious Lucy... |
Education | Lesley Storm | Margaret Cowie (later LS
) received her Master of Arts (a first degree in Scotland) from the University of Aberdeen
. 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. Ravenhall, Chris. “Lesley Storm’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Three Goose Quills and a Knife</span>: A Burns Play Rediscovered”. Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol. 32 , pp. 46-54. 46 |
Education | Lesley Storm | Near the end of the First World War, Margaret Cowie (later LS
) finished her schooling at Peterhead Academy, in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and won a bursary to continue her education at the University of Aberdeen
. Ravenhall, Chris. “Lesley Storm’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Three Goose Quills and a Knife</span>: A Burns Play Rediscovered”. Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol. 32 , pp. 46-54. 46 |
Education | Nan Shepherd | After attending Cults Primary School, followed by Aberdeen High School for Girls
, NS
received her MA (a first degree in Scotland) in 1915 from the University of Aberdeen
. Her studies in English laid... |
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