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Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Michèle Roberts | After her BA degree, she studied librarianship at the University of London
, for a two-year postgraduate qualification: a year of practical work, a year of lectures, then exams. Michèle Roberts. http://www.micheleroberts.co.uk/index.htm. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago. 19,62-3, 76 |
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... |
Education | Kathleen E. Innes | About 1910-11, she spent four terms studying under author and naturalist William Henry Hudson
in a University Extension programme taught at Gresham College
. She graduated from this course first in her class and was... |
Education | Michelene Wandor | Later again she studied music at Trinity College of Music
and the University of London
. |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Ruth Prawer
enrolled to read for a BA in English at Queen Mary College
, University of London
, from which she went straight on to a graduate degree. Crane, Ralph J. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Twayne. 3 |
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 | 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. 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 |
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... |
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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Edith Shove
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