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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.
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A pupil of Jeremy Bentham , he held a number of positions relating to jurisprudence throughout his...
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.
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/.
Education Buchi Emecheta
BE received her B.Sc. (with honours) in Sociology from the University of London .
Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann.
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Umeh, Marie, editor. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press.
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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.
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Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann.
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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.
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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.
Education Susan Miles
Having enrolled as a mature student, SM gained her first-class honours BA in philosophy from London University .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Education Augusta Ada Byron
AAB (now Countess of Lovelace) began studying with Augustus De Morgan , a leading logician and the first professor of mathematics at the University of London .
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
under Lovelace, Augusta
Stein, Dorothy. Ada: A Life and a Legacy. MIT Press.
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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...
Education Kathleen E. Innes
Kathleen Royds (later Innes) graduated from the University of London with a BA (Second Class Honours) in Modern Languages (English and German).
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
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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.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Michèle Roberts. http://www.micheleroberts.co.uk/index.htm.
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago.
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1948: The University College of the Gold Coast...

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1948

The University College of the Gold Coast (later Ghana) in Legon near Accra was taken into special relation with the University of London .

1948: The University College, Ibadan, Nigeria,...

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1948

The University College , Ibadan, Nigeria, was taken into special relation with the University of London .

1948: The University of London appointed Professor...

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1948

The University of London appointed Professor Lilian Penson vice-chancellor, the first time a woman held this position at a British university.

1949: The University of London founded the Athlone...

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1949

The University of London founded the Athlone Press , named after its then current chancellor.

1949: Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda,...

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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...

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1955

The University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was founded at Mount Pleasant, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe).

1961: The Royal Technical College of East Africa...

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1961

The Royal Technical College of East Africa in Nairobi was taken into special relation with the University of London .

1961: The University College of Dar-es-Salaam was...

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1961

The University College of Dar-es-Salaam was taken into special relation with the University of London until 1963.

December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...

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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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