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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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. She spent...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

John Austin , Lucie's father, legal philosopher, was the son of a successful miller and corn merchant. A pupil of Jeremy Bentham , he held a number of positions relating to jurisprudence throughout his...

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 . His published works include a biography...

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