University of East Anglia

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Textual Production Doris Lessing
Scholar Elizabeth Maslen notes the complexity of DL 's bibliography: she used many different publishers, and appeared in many different paperback imprints, some of them since swallowed up by different names.
Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House.
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Lessing's personal archive...
Textual Production Maggie Gee
In her capacity as writing fellow at East Anglia , MG edited an anthology entitled For Life on Earth, which collects anti-war texts first published in ephemeral locations.
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.
Reception Rose Tremain
When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT was among them (along with Pat Barker , Martin Amis , Salman Rushdie ...
Occupation Maggie Gee
Having been a temporary filing clerk before university, MG worked from 1972 to 1974 for Elsevier International Press at their offices in Oxford, then spent six months on the dole, writing. While working at...
Occupation Selima Hill
SH ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust , and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a...
Occupation Alison Fell
In 1986 AF was a writing fellow at the New South Wales Institute of Technology in Sydney, . In 1998 she held the Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia , in the School...
Employer Maggie Gee
MG has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex , the University of East Anglia , Sheffield Hallam, and Bath Spa University. She also teaches for the Arvon Foundation and similar bodies, has...
Employer Michèle Roberts
She regularly gives readings of her work, for instance at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival on 29 May 2001. She is Professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia (having previously been Visiting Fellow...
Employer Ali Smith
After leaving Cambridge AS secured a job lecturing at the University of Strathclyde in 1990, where she remained for two years before being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Germanà, Monica, and Emily Horton, editors. Ali Smith. Bloomsbury.
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She ascribes her illness partly to...
Employer Rose Tremain
In the year of her first marriage RT became a full-time writer. In 1988 she became a part-time lecturer on the Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia , of which she was...
Employer Fleur Adcock
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...
Employer Angela Carter
AC taught part-time in the Writing MA programme at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Northcote House.
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Employer Bernardine Evaristo
Apart from other writing-life activities like reading her poems in London and on tour, BE has a successful career as an academic teacher of creative writing. She has worked in the UK at the University of East Anglia
Education Ann Quin
There followed brief attendance at a part-time painting course in her late teens (the result of a romantic passion for an art student), being struck dumb at an audition for RADA (the Royal Academy of...
Education Rose Tremain
Rose Thomson (later RT ) received her BA Honours degree in English (her second degree) from the University of East Anglia , where she had enrolled in 1964.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Tremain, Rose. Rosie. Scenes from a Vanished Life. Chatto.
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Timeline

1963: The University of East Anglia was founded...

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1963

The University of East Anglia was founded in Norwich.

15 June 2007: Tatiana de Rosnay, born in France in 1961...

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15 June 2007

Tatiana de Rosnay , born in France in 1961 to an English mother and Russian father, published her first and most famous English-language novelSarah's Key, which in 2015 had sold nine million copies around the world.
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Texts

Gee, Maggie, editor. For Life on Earth. University of East Anglia, 1882.