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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, 2006. 309 |
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... |
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... |
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. |
Residence | Henry Handel Richardson | Ethel Robertson (who later wrote as HHR
) moved from Strasbourg to London when her husband
was appointed professor of German at London University
. Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 154, 160, 162 |
Residence | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
moved from a house at 45 George Street, just south of Blackfriars Bridge, to Store Street (house number unknown) near the present London University
buildings. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992. 131 |
Residence | Sarah Austin | They lived in London between 1828 and 1834, while he lectured at the University of London
. Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985. 34 |
Residence | Lucie Duff Gordon | In Bonn, LDG
's father
studied Roman Law under Niebuhr
and Schlegel
in preparation for his upcoming appointment as Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of London
. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994. 35 Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, pp. 1-17. 1-2 |
Textual Features | Emma Jane Worboise | Arnold represented a fascinating subject for a biographer interested in the shades of religious faith and their interaction with secular politics. Worboise relates his experiences as a member of the Senate of the new London University |
Textual Features | Hilary Mantel | At her selective convent school school Carmel McBain is thrown closely together with Karina (child of East European immigrant parents), because they are the only two children at the school from poor homes beyond its... |
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