Stewart, Mary. About Mary Stewart. Musson.
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Education | Mary Stewart | Mary Rainbow
(later MS
) received her BA in English with First Class Honours from Durham University
, where she had enrolled in 1935. Stewart, Mary. About Mary Stewart. Musson. 5 |
Education | Mary Stewart | She was involved in both university social activities and sports. She became the president of both the Women's Union
and the Literary Society
as well as participating in college theatricals. The last may perhaps have... |
Employer | Mary Stewart | In 1941 MS
was offered a part-time position (six lectures a week) as a lecturer in the English Department of Durham University
, which was short of staff because of enlistment in the armed forces... |
Employer | Mary Stewart | MS
was asked to lecture part-time at St Hild's College
of education for women (a part of the university) In 1975 this was merged with Durham's college of education for men as the College of... |
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 | U. A. Fanthorpe | 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... |
Employer | Carol Rumens | She has also held writer-in-residence positions at the Universities of Newcastle
and Durham
(as Northern Arts Literary Fellow, 1988-90), Queen's University, Belfast
(1991-3 and again 1995-8), University College, Cork
(1994), and the Stockholm University
(Spring... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gillian Slovo | Five hundred people were detained under this law in its first six months. On release they could be re-arrested (as First was as she stood in a phone booth outside the prison, about to tell... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Stewart | While studying at the University of Durham
Mary Rainbow (later MS
) continued to write, but poetry rather than fiction, with the dream of becoming a lecturer on poetry at Oxford. Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers, 1990. 3 |
Occupation | Gillian Slovo | GS
served for three years as president of English PEN
. One month before her term was due to expire she resigned her presidency in order to draw attention to what she said was an... |
Occupation | Jane Ellen Harrison | In March 1895 she received the first honorary LLD awarded to a woman by the University of Aberdeen
, and two years later she received an honorary DLitt from the University of Durham
for her scholarship. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001. 116 |
Occupation | Kathleen Jamie | She has spent two periods working at the Centre for Medical Humanities
as a Fellow of Durham University
's Institute for Advanced Studies, the second of them in early 2012. “Launch of ’Frissure’: a collaboration between Kathleen Jamie, Brigid Collins and CMH”. Centre for Medical Humanities, 13 Aug. 2013. |
Reception | Vernon Lee | VL
received an Honorary DLitt from Durham University
: she added the degree to her signature on a letter to The Times on 14 November this year. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003. 353n1 “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (14 November 1924): 8 |
Reception | Mary Stewart | The degree was awarded as part of the celebrations for the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of Durham
. The speech introducing MS
at the ceremony was given by Professor... |
Reception | Anne Stevenson | AS
has held a number of awards: a Scottish Arts Council
award, 1974, a Welsh Arts Council
award, 1980, a Northern Arts Literary Fellowship at the Universities of Newcastle
and Durham
, 1981-2, Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 9 |
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