Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University 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... |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | BH
also wrote for the Bedford College
Magazine and the Cheltenham Ladies' College
Magazine: for the former in 1915 she described her war-work with the Commission for Relief in Belgium
. On 17 June... |
Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
spent two years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, a pioneering institution in the education of girls. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 26, 32 |
Textual Production | Jane Ellen Harrison | At some point during her studies at Cheltenham Ladies' College, JEH
's first printed literary effort appeared: Praying for Rain was published by the Religious Tract Society
. This is absent, however, from standard... |
Occupation | Jane Ellen Harrison | After rejecting an offer from her former mentor Dorothea Beale
to teach at her old school, Cheltenham Ladies' College
, made in 1898, JEH
gave several lectures at the Passmore Edwards Institute
in Bloomsbury on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elspeth Huxley | Her mother, born Eleanor Lilian Grosvenor
, was known as Nellie. Nellie was the youngest of her family; niece of the first Duke of Westminster, a member of an impressive clan of courtiers and politicians... |
Textual Production | Margaret Kennedy | MK
distinguished herself as a writer in her last year at Cheltenham Ladies' College
by winning the annual Eisteddfod Competition in both poetry and drama. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 28-30 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Kennedy | Other women writers with whom MK
established friendships included Lettice Cooper
, Phyllis Bentley
(who had also been at Cheltenham
), Marghanita Laski
, Elizabeth Jenkins
, and Rose Macaulay
. These authors supported and... |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | MK
spent just over three years at Cheltenham as a boarder at Cheltenham Ladies' College
, a nationally-renowned school for girls. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 25, 37 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | During her last year at Cheltenham
, MK
heard W. B. Yeats
lecture on the Irish poet and playwright J. M. Synge
. Biographer Violet Powell
gives Synge's initialswrongly as J. B. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 28 |
Occupation | Margaret Kennedy | Along with her fellow classmates at Cheltenham
, MK
prepared and sent boxes of supplies to British soldiers on the front lines. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 35-6 |
Education | Viola Meynell | From then on she attended, as a day-girl, the Convent of Our Lady of Sion in Bayswater. Partly modelled on Cheltenham Ladies' College
, the convent offered classes in Catholicism and scripture, history, geography... |
Education | Carola Oman | CO
badly wanted to go to boarding-school, and Cheltenham Ladies' College
was suggested, but her mother decided against it. Carola later felt that this had been a good thing, since the emphasis on sport (which... |
Employer | Pandita Ramabai | When PR
left Wantage in September 1884 it was to teach Sanskrit at Cheltenham Ladies' College
in Gloucestershire (a private secondary school with high academic standards). She taught there for the years 1884 and 1885... |
Employer | Mary Renault | Having gained her qualification at the Radcliffe Infirmary, MR
worked as a school nurse at Marlborough College
(a boys' public school) in Wiltshire, and in Colwyn Bay on the north coast of Wales... |
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