Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield.
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Reception | Buchi Emecheta | She served as a Member of the Arts Council of Great Britain
from 1982 to 1983, and in 1986 was made a Fellow of the University of London
(where she had been a lecturer since... |
Reception | Florence Dixie | In 2001 Héloïse Jeanne-Marie Coffey
produced a London University
PhD thesis entitled Female Emancipation and British Imperialism in the Writings of Lady Florence Dixie. |
Publishing | Charlotte Godley | This first version was printed at Plymouth for private circulation only, at the urging of A. P. Newton
, a professor in imperial history at the University of London
, who contributed an introduction. The... |
politics | Mary Carpenter | MC
's biographer wrote: Her peculiar sense of womanliness rendered her at first unfavourable to the claim for Women's Suffrage. But contact with John Stuart Mill
, and observing the power of legislation to effect... |
politics | Emily Davies | ED
's friend Elizabeth Garrett
determined to become a doctor after hearing Dr Elizabeth Blackwell
lecture. When Garrett found her studies at Middlesex Hospital
impeded by the medical profession's prejudice against women, ED
helped her... |
Occupation | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | In 1826 HPBB
founded the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
and at about the same date played an instrumental role towards the founding of London University
. He authored several critical and historical... |
Occupation | Jane Ellen Harrison | First inspired by Erwin Rohde
's book on Greek understandings of the afterlife, published in 1890, JEH
now began to turn her research interests to pre-Olympian spiritual practices and expressions, particularly (but not exclusively) those... |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | In the wake of Robert Elsmere's success, MAW
sought to prove the feasibility of the New Brotherhood which she had described in her novel through the foundation of a similar philanthropic organisation. As she... |
Occupation | Ling Shuhua | From 1956 to 1960, LS taught Chinese literature at Nanyang University
, and lived in both Singapore and London. She wrote and travelled, taking trips to Japan and Hong Kong. Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield. 309 |
Literary Setting | Edna O'Brien | In this novel, Kate Brady (again the narrator) works in a dismal grocery shop in Dublin and has an affair with Eugene Gaillard, a documentary filmmaker and married man. After being dragged back to her... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | The group's name, derived from the area of London in which several of its members lived (the area that includes the University of London
) flags a key feature: it met in personal spaces and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Arnot Robertson | The couple met while out sailing. They had one child, a son. The papers of the Commonwealth Press Union are held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies
within London University
's School of Advanced Study |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kate Clanchy | KC
's father, Michael Clanchy
, is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the Institute for Historical Research
, which is a part of the University of London
. “Fellowships”. Institute of Historical Research. University of London, School of Advanced Study. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Stone | Cumberland as place of residence would accord with her having married Thomas Stone
, as he became a Divinity Lecturer at St Bee's Theological College
in Cumberland in 1834. In 1838, he moved to London... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Davies | Before ED
's birth, her father was offered a Chair of moral and political economy at London University
after having published two well-received books. He turned down the offer because the £300 salary was not... |
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