Quin, Ann. “Introduction”. The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments, edited by Jennifer Hodgson, And Other Stories, pp. 7-12.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
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