Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield.
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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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. 309 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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