University of Newcastle

In LondonFA worked as a librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (which bought her a few hours of solitude each day to write in) until she took the plunge and became a...

GA was appointed to a two-year Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at the University of Newcastle .

Her historical importance has been recognised by two recent biographies, those of Janet Wallach , 1996 (Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia)...

The strength of EB 's influence on British and Irish poetry was variously recognised during the 1980s by Andrew Motion , Seamus Heaney , James Fenton , and Eavan Boland , and during the 1990s...

As a young adult CC took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to...

That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure...

While writing Tilly Trotter, CC also worked on A Dinner of Herbs, a single volume of 250,000 words published in 1985. The manuscript, now at Newcastle University , demonstrates how her notes relate...

Also in 1982, CC received an honorary master's degree from Newcastle University . With typical doubleness, she said the degree had finally replaced the chip on her shoulder while simultaneously expressing disappointment at only receiving...

In 1991, told that she might die at any time, CC instructed her husband to burn her manuscript notes, diaries, and letters, as well as the autobiography in progress. Her annotated copy of Lord Chesterfield

A re-issue of 1833 is known only from a single copy at the University of Newcastle .

These were probably the final publications of her lifetime, though this is not particularly significant for someone who did not publish voluntarily. Each was reprinted separately in pamphlet form. Two copies in the world are...

After becoming known as a poet Fanthorpe held several writer-in-residence posts. The offer of a year as Arts Council writer in residence at St Martin's College , Lancaster in 1983 moved the hospital to give...

As a teacher of creative writing at the University of Newcastle , JK has worked with students on their literary manuscripts. She frequently does readings (and mocks the way writers try to glamorize this activity...

QDL delivered the Jane Austen Bicentenary Lecture at the University of Newcastle . It was published posthumously as an essay.

Letters of EM 's survive at the State Library of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), Richmond Central Library (Richmond, Surrey), the University of Newcastle , and especially the University of Reading .