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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... |
Employer | T. S. Eliot | To earn a living for himself and his wife, Eliot became a schoolteacher, a prolific reviewer, an extension lecturer for London University
, and the literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. |
Employer | A. S. Byatt | The same year that she began with Westminster Tutors she also began lecturing, extramurally, at London University. She continued in this job until 1971. |
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
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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 | 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 | 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 | Buchi Emecheta | BE
received her B.Sc. (with honours) in Sociology from the University of London
. Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann. -3, 96-9 Umeh, Marie, editor. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press. 457 |
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
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. 458 Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann. 222 |
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 | 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. 10, 18-19 |
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 et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Timeline
1948: The University College, Ibadan, Nigeria,...
National or international item
1948
The University College
, Ibadan, Nigeria, was taken into special relation with the University of London
.
1948: The University of London appointed Professor...
Building item
1948
The University of London
appointed Professor Lilian Penson
vice-chancellor, the first time a woman held this position at a British university.
1948: The University College of the Gold Coast...
National or international item
1948
The University College of the Gold Coast
(later Ghana) in Legon near Accra was taken into special relation with the University of London
.
1949: The University of London founded the Athlone...
Writing climate item
1949
The University of London
founded the Athlone Press
, named after its then current chancellor.
1949: Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda,...
National or international item
1949
Makerere University College
in Kampala, Uganda, was taken into special relation with the University of London
.
1955: The University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland...
National or international item
1955
The University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
was founded at Mount Pleasant, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe).
1961: The University College of Dar-es-Salaam was...
National or international item
1961
The University College of Dar-es-Salaam was taken into special relation with the University of London
until 1963.
1961: The Royal Technical College of East Africa...
National or international item
1961
The Royal Technical College of East Africa
in Nairobi was taken into special relation with the University of London
.
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
Women writers item
December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
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