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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Jex-Blake | In this essay SJB
focuses particularly on the January 1878 decision by the University of London
to admit women to the study of medicine on equal terms with men. This decision, she writes, made on... |
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 |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Ruth Prawer
received her MA (a degree which was then London's equivalent to the PhD) from London University
as a member of Queen Mary College
. 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. |
Textual Production | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Ruth Prawer
's London MA thesis (in the days when London University
offered no doctorate, and the MA degree, and thesis, was equal in weight to the PhDs of other universities) was on The Short... |
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 |
Education | Jane Loudon | After she was married she set out to educate herself in her husband's area of expertise: botany. She attended lectures given by John Lindley
, first professor of botany at London University
, and took... |
Textual Production | Bathsua Makin | It was dedicated to Queen Anne
, wife of James I (who died on 2 March this year). It seems that this was to be printed as a pamphlet; one sample sheet survives in a... |
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... |
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 | 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. |
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... |
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. 154, 160, 162 |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Most of ATR
's unpublished manuscripts and letters are held by the University of London
and Eton College
libraries. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 333 |
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. 19,62-3, 76 |
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 |
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