Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research, 1985.
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Education | Storm Jameson | After completing her undergraduate degree at Leeds
she won, the same year, a John Ruteau Fellowship. It was intended for study at University College, London
, but she soon transferred to King's College
. Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research, 1985. 36: 70 Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970. 55,58, 64 |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Stephen (later VW
) began studying Latin and classics with Dr George Warr
at the Kensington Ladies' Department of King's College, London
. She did not take the exams, however. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989. 2 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 143 |
Education | Evelyn Underhill | EU
enlisted in the recently established Ladies' Department of King's College
in Kensington. Greene, Dana. Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life. Crossroad, 1990. 11 |
Education | Sarojini Naidu | Sarojini Chattopadhyaya
(later SN
) continued her studies at English universities, first King's College, London
, and then Girton College, Cambridge
. Sengupta, Padmini. Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. Asia Publishing House, 1966. 28, 32 Naidu, Sarojini. “Introduction and Notes”. Sarojini Naidu, Selected Letters 1890s to 1940s, edited by Makarand Paranjape, Kali for Women, 1996, p. Various pages. viii, 1n2, 35-7 |
Education | Kathleen Nott | KN
attended the highly respected Mary Datchelor School
before moving on to King's College
, London, for a year. After securing an open exhibition in English (the only subject I could get up... |
Education | Anita Brookner | AB
was educated at James Allen's Girls' School
in Dulwich, South London. She embarked on a general BA at King's College, London
but found the course boring. At the suggestion of a lunchtime lecturer... |
Education | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby (later AR
) took a diploma in journalism at King's College
, London. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp. 89 Backscheider, Paula R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 27. Gale Research, 1980. 27: 299 |
Education | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | As an adult, MEC
studied English Literature at King's College for Women
; she took a particular interest in Elizabethan drama. Jackson, Vanessa Furse. “Breaking the Quiet Surface: The Shorter Poems of Mary Coleridge”. English Literature in Transition, Vol. 39 , No. 1, 1996, pp. 41-62. 42 Presumably this was during the years when this institution was known as King's College London Ladies' Department |
Education | Radclyffe Hall | Later, in her teens, she attended a fashionable day-school in Kensington run by Miss Coles
. She also briefly attended King's College, London
, and spent a year studying in Dresden. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 29-30 |
Education | Maureen Duffy | MD
attended King's College, London
, where she obtained an honours BA in English in 1956. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 68 |
Education | Susan Hill | SH
was awarded her BA Honours in English from King's College, London University
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
Employer | May Cannan | MC
's next jobs were working as a secretary at King's College, London
, and then as Assistant Librarian at the Athenaeum
, where her skill at finding obscure references became legendary. Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books, 2000. 162-3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Flora Macdonald Mayor | FMM
's father, Joseph Bickersteth Mayor
, was a clergyman and a professor of classics, later of moral philosophy, at King's College, University of London
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Oldfield, Sybil. Spinsters of This Parish: The Life and Times of FM Mayor and Mary Sheepshanks. Virago, 1984. 11 Morgan, Janet. “Introduction: The Squire’s Daughter”. The Rector’s Daughter, Virago, 1987, p. v - xii. vii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | IT
's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree
, taught classics at Queen's College
, Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College
. Queen's College was founded for the training of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | At first a private tutor of Italian, Gabriele gained some prestige but no direct financial advantage when he was appointed Professor of Italian at King's College
(founded in August 1829). Rossetti, Christina. “Memoir; Notes”. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, edited by William Michael Rossetti, Norwood, 1979, pp. xlv - lxxi; 459. xlv-xlvi |
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