Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Open University
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Reception | Mary Wesley | Early praise for MW
's work came from such different writers as Marghanita Laski
and Susan Hill
. Other commentators likened her work to that of Rose Macaulay
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Barbara Pym
... |
Employer | Sarah Waters | SW
began writing fiction as she waited, after completing her PhD degree, to hear whether or not she had got a grant which would have enabled her to continue in the academic profession. Since then... |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | In 1976 MW
was one of an Open University
team or collective which produced a text for a course in Art and Environment, entitled The Great Divide: The Sexual Division of Labour; or, Is it... |
Reception | Mary Stott | MS
was awarded the OBE in 1975, and was also made a Fellow of Manchester Polytechnic
. The Open University
gave her an honoray MA in 1991 and De Montfort University
in Leicester gave her... |
Textual Production | Ann Oakley | The many other texts that AO
published during this decade include an Open University
course entitled The Division of Labour by Gender, 1981, and her biographical article on Millicent Garrett Fawcett
for Dale Spender |
Literary responses | Anne Lister | It was in connection with her immediate or recent reputation that AL
was allegedly fictionalised both in Brontë
's Shirley and Rosa Kettle
's The Mistress of Langdale Hall, 1872. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Andrea Levy | |
Employer | Sylvia Kantaris | From 1974 (the date that it was launched) until 1984 SK
taught twentieth-century poetry for the Open University
. In 1986 she became Cornwall's first Writer in the Community. Kantaris, Sylvia. Lad’s Love. Bloodaxe Books. back pages |
Employer | Frances Horovitz | At the BBC
and Open UniversityFH
established herself as one of the most accomplished readers of contemporary poetry. As Frances Hooker
, she read for the BBC's Third Programme
(which, with a few shifts... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maggie Gee | Her mother, the former Aileen Church
, would have been christened Eileen if the Church of England
vicar hadn't objected that that was an Irish name. Her parents (near neighbours of those of her future... |
Education | Naomi Alderman | In her forties she is a regular on Open University
courses, giving 45 minutes a day to study taking in an eclectic range of subjects, such as archaeology and material culture, human biology, and modern... |
Timeline
July 1928: Jennie Lee, a Scottish coalminer's daughter,...
National or international item
July 1928
Jennie Lee
, a Scottish coalminer's daughter, was selected as Labour
candidate for the constituency of Lanarkshire; she was elected to the House of Commons
as its youngest member in a by-election in February...
May 1969: The Open University based at the barely-begun...
Building item
May 1969
The Open University
based at the barely-begun new town of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire (fruit of Jennie Lee
's University of the Air Advisory Committee) received its royal charter.
January 1971: The Open University began teaching its first...
Building item
January 1971
The Open University
began teaching its first courses.
2 June 2003: British Asian writer Monica Ali published...
Women writers item
2 June 2003
British Asian writer Monica Ali
published her first novel, Brick Lane, to resounding success.
July 2010: BPP University College of Professional Studies...
Building item
July 2010
BPP University College of Professional Studies
was awarded the status of a university or degree-granting body: only the second private or for-profit organization of this kind in the UK.
Hotson, Howard. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 11, p. 19. 19
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