University of Aberdeen

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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...
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...
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 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.
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, pp. 46-54.
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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.
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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...
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.
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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.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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...

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