“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
University of Aberdeen
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Reception | Evelyn Underhill | EU
received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford
and head retreats in the Anglican Church
, she was elected a... |
Reception | Emma Tennant | She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded an Honorary DLitt from the University of Aberdeen
in 1996. |
Reception | Anna Swanwick | AS
received, in absentia, an Honorary LL.D from the University of Aberdeen
. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 220 |
Textual Production | Annie S. Swan | Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen
, Edinburgh University
, and Columbia University
, New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Nan Shepherd | NS
published her first novel, The Quarry Wood, a bildungsroman whose heroine, Martha Ironside, has a passion for learning that takes her from poverty and squalor to the University of Aberdeen
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1359 (16 February 1928): 105 |
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... |
Publishing | Nan Shepherd | While working on her undergraduate degree, NS
regularly contributed poetry and other writings to Alma Mater, the magazine of the University of Aberdeen
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Nan Shepherd | Once at the University of Aberdeen
on a bursary, Martha has to struggle with her gruelling commute by bicycle, with the realisation that she wants a four-year Honours degree instead of the shorter course she... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory
, Eliza Berkeley
, Mary Delany
, Ann Donellan
, and Hester Thrale
, besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and... |
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. |
Textual Production | Christian Milne | CM
, who as a child had copied out the poems of others by stealth, Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 58 |
Timeline
1494: The University of Aberdeen (also known as...
Building item
1494
The University of Aberdeen
(also known as King's College, Aberdeen
) was founded by William Elphinstone
, Bishop of Aberdeen, primarily as a school of law.
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