Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
University of London
Connections
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Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Ruth Prawer
received her MA (a degree which was then London's equivalent to the PhD) from London University
as a member of Queen Mary College
. |
Education | H. G. Wells | Having initially left school at thirteen, HGW
later attended the Normal School
which later became the Royal College of Science. His most important teacher and inspiration was Thomas Huxley
. He failed his final exams... |
Education | Pat Barker | PB
graduated with a BSc in international history from the Perry, Donna. “Going Home Again: An Interview with Pat Barker”. The Literary Review, pp. 235 - 44. 238 |
Education | Theodora Benson | Later TB
attended the School of Oriental Languages
at London University
(whose title changed in 1938 to School of Oriental and African Studies) in order to learn Malay for her planned trip to Asia. |
Education | Jane Loudon | After she was married she set out to educate herself in her husband's area of expertise: botany. She attended lectures given by John Lindley
, first professor of botany at London University
, and took... |
Education | Phyllis Bentley | Bentley was the first person in her family to receive such an extensive and expensive education: none of her brothers went beyond the secondary school level, and it was understood that Cheltenham was preparation for... |
Education | Buchi Emecheta | BE
received her B.Sc. (with honours) in Sociology from the University of London
. Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994. -3, 96-9 Umeh, Marie, editor. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press, 1996. 457 |
Education | Buchi Emecheta | BE
earned her MA degree in philosophy from the University of London
, and immediately enrolled to begin work toward her doctorate. Umeh, Marie, editor. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press, 1996. 458 Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994. 222 |
Education | Robert Browning | Like Alexander Pope
, Browning was an autodidact, educating himself in his father's vast library. In 1828 he began reading Greek at London University
but dropped out in his second term. Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. 10, 18-19 |
Education | Jessie White Mario | She arrived in London determined to study medicine so that she could serve as a field nurse during Garibaldi
's campaigns. She was refused entry to fourteen London hospitals. On 10 July 1856, a representative... |
Education | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
received her Diploma of Education from London University
, the year following her Honours BA in English from St Anne's College, Oxford
. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Education | Susan Miles | Having enrolled as a mature student, SM
gained her first-class honours BA in philosophy from London University
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Education | Augusta Ada Byron | AAB
(now Countess of Lovelace) began studying with Augustus De Morgan
, a leading logician and the first professor of mathematics at the University of London
. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. under Lovelace, Augusta Stein, Dorothy. Ada: A Life and a Legacy. MIT Press, 1985. xix |
Education | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was educated at Dresden in Germany, then at Cheltenham Ladies' College
(a secondary school), Queen's College
, and Bedford College
. She graduated from London University
with a BA in Arts, having studied... |
Education | Victoria Cross | While her sisters are known to have attended a small boarding school in England, it is unknown whether Annie Sophie, or VC
, ever had any form of institutionalised lower schooling in England or India... |
Timeline
27 October 1785
The London Hospital Medical College
, established this year, opened its operating theatre.
1805
The East India Company
established a training college for civil servants.
11 February 1826
The present University College
, University of London
, was founded as the University of London.
30 April 1829
John Lindley
gave his inaugural lecture as the first professor of botany at the newly established London University
.
1836
The University of London
was founded, in effect extending university education substantially in the provinces and colonies.
1842
The School of Pharmacy
, now part of the University of London
, was founded by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
.
1849
Bedford College
, initially known as the Ladies' College
in Bedford Square, or Mrs Reid's Ladies College
, was founded.
9 April 1858
Queen Victoria
signed the royal charter giving London University
(then comprised of two schools, University College
and King's College
) the revolutionary power of offering courses and degrees externally.
April 1862
The Senate of the University of London voted against allowing women into their medical degree programme.
October 1865
Elizabeth Garrett
obtained an apothecary's licence through the Society of Apothecaries
: this began her medical career, after her rejection by the Universities of London
, Edinburgh
, St Andrews
, Oxford
, and Cambridge
.
1867
London University
opened its degree examinations to all (male) candidates, including those at a distance and without university affiliation.
1868
London University
established a special examination for women over eighteen.
1868
James Africanus Beale Horton
published at LondonWest African Countries and Peoples, British and Native, and A Vindication of the African Race, analysing the conditions required to establish self-government for his people.
July 1874
The Senate of the University of London announced that it would allow women into the classroom but would not grant them degrees.
March 1877
The Senate of the University of London decided to admit a female student to their Medical Faculty; this decision was suspended a month later.