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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, 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 | 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, 1990. |
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... |
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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. |
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 | 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... |
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 | Sarah Austin | He was an expert in jurisprudence, who gave up practising law in 1825 to pursue interests in politics and legal philosophy. In 1826 he was selected to be Professor of Jurisprudence and the Law of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucie Duff Gordon | John Austin
, Lucie's father, legal philosopher, was the son of a successful miller and corn merchant. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994. 14 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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