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Textual Production | Mary McCarthy | She first started to muse on and explore these ideas after the theft of Vermeer
's painting Young Lady with a Guitar by Irish terrorists during the winter of 1974. She was fascinated by the... |
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... |
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... |
Reception | Jane Ellen Harrison | Classics scholar JEH
received an Honorary LL.D from the University of Aberdeen
, the first conferred by the institution on a woman. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 116 |
Occupation | Jane Ellen Harrison | In March 1895 she received the first honorary LLD awarded to a woman by the University of Aberdeen
, and two years later she received an honorary DLitt from the University of Durham
for her scholarship. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 116 |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | BH
is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Hannah Arendt | In spring 1973 HA
delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen
, a series dating back to 1888, whose speakers over the years have included renowned philosophers. Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press. 448 |
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