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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Education | Augusta Webster | Suffragist historian Ray Strachey
relates that AW
jeopardized the prospects of women students at the South Kensington Art School
when she was expelled for whistling. Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago. 96 Webster, Augusta. “Introduction”. Portraits and Other Poems, edited by Christine Sutphin, Broadview, pp. 9-37. 10 |
Textual Features | Mary Augusta Ward | The heroine is described as deriving from a long line of English gentry, Whig supporters of the Empire: a tedious race perhaps and pig-headed, tyrannical too here and there, but on the whole honourable English... |
Education | Una Troubridge | Margot Taylor (later UT
) held a scholarship which she won at the age of thirteen to the Royal College of Art
in London. Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf. 25-6 Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 113 Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton. 63-4 |
Occupation | Una Troubridge | By the age of sixteen, UT
had begun receiving commissions for her sculptures and had rented a studio of her own in which to exhibit her works. The money she earned from these commissions gave... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Freya Stark | FS
's father, Robert Stark
, had left his family at Torquay in Devon to study art in Rome and was on a visit to his uncle's home near Florence, when he met his first... |
Employer | Ann Quin | On leaving school at seventeen, AQ
took a position as an assistant stage manager for a theatre company. She made coffee, sewed, scrubbed, and shifted scenery. After six weeks she had a row with the... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Quin | Working at the Royal College of Art
brought AQ
into close proximity with pop art creators like David Hockney
and Pauline Boty
. Quin, Ann. “Introduction”. The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments, edited by Jennifer Hodgson, And Other Stories, pp. 7-12. 7 |
Employer | Iris Murdoch | Having left St Anne's
with the idea of securing more time for her writing, IM
was a part-time lecturer in philosophy at the Royal College of Art
in London. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 469 and n4 Conradi, Peter J. “A Literary Witness to Good and Evil”. Guardian Weekly, Guardian Publications, p. 24. 24 Todd, Richard. Iris Murdoch. Methuen. 18 |
Friends, Associates | Iris Murdoch | IM
regularly extended the hand of friendship to people in trouble. As a single example, JoŽe
and Marija Jančar
, Catholic Slovenes whom she met as displaced persons in Austria, turned to her for help... |
Residence | Iris Murdoch | IM
rented a small flat in London when in 1963 she became a part-time lecturer at the Royal College of Art
; she slept there two nights a week. This was succeeded by other London... |
Textual Features | Eliza Meteyard | An article by her in the People's Journal presages her later work on Wedgwood. Art in Spitalfields: A Tale chronicles the achievements of Sarah Chapman
, who strove during the 1830s to establish education... |
Performance of text | Deborah Levy | This novel grew out of Hot Milk Madonna (a short animated film which Levy co-directed with Pia Borg
at the Royal College of Art
in 2009). “Hot Milk Madonna film score”. Goldsmiths, University of London. Research Online. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Horovitz | They had met in 1960 when Frances joined a group of Blake
admirers involved with Michael's radical magazine, New Departures, which he had founded in 1959 and which he published and edited. New Departures |
Education | Nina Hamnett | NH
, deadly serious and determined to get on (whereas most of the girls there were marking time until marriage), studied under an old Scotsman who painted curious pictures of Highlanders and romantic scenes at... |
Education | Nina Hamnett | When she resumed classes at the London School of Art
after her summer in Russia in 1909, NH
had to take on the additional role of massiere (managing the models in the absence of the... |
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