King's College, University of London

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Textual Production Evelyn Underhill
King's College, London , has extensive holdings of EU 's papers: its description of its archive records holdings in other places too. Some of the King's material was shown in an exhibition to mark the...
Textual Production Katherine Mansfield
Four stories by KM , written in about 1908, remained unpublished. Ida Baker gave the manuscripts of these stories, in the 1960s, to Miron Grindea , editor of ADAM International Review. Remaining in the...
Textual Features Marghanita Laski
This book is comprised of talks which she originally gave in 1974 at King's College , London. It examines the effects of ecstatic experiences on society at large and considers their social consequences.
Mary, Baroness Warnock,. “The Greatest Happiness”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4028, p. 632.
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Reception Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
She was also granted life membership of the Society of Authors in recognition of her work for Public Lending Right.
The Author. Alexander P. Watt.
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Reception Evelyn Underhill
EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...
Reception Jane Austen
In 1933 there was excitement in the book-collecting world when a small collection of books that Austen had owned (by writers like Ariosto , Goldsmith , Hume , and Thomson ) appeared in the catalogue...
Publishing Maureen Duffy
MD formed the desire to be a poet while she was a child: I wouldn't marry or have children but would follow in the penprints of my hero Keats .
Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Virago.
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While she was at...
politics Storm Jameson
While at King's , SJ accepted an invitation to join the Eikonoklasts, a group of men that met for weekly discussion in a campus common-room. Jameson recalled with relish that they were skeptics, unavowed anarchists...
Performance of text Nell Dunn
ND 's play Cancer Tales, published the previous year, had its first uncut performance at the King's College, London , Greenwood Theatre , 55 Weston Street, London SE1.
“Cancer Tales: Nell Dunn’s latest play to premier in London”. King’s College, London: News archive 2003.
Occupation Maureen Duffy
MD was a schoolteacher before becoming a full-time professional writer. She taught for two years at the City Literary Institute in Drury Lane, London, before attending King's College . Another teaching experience just after...
Occupation Beryl Bainbridge
BB was a striking and accomplished visual artist, though she tended to speak slightingly of her own work. Early in her marriage to Austin Davies she exhibited her work alongside his.
King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury .
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She began a...
Occupation Anita Brookner
Six of her Slade Lectures became her first scholarly publication. AB was later elected a fellow of New Hall, Cambridge , and also of King's College , London University.
Sadler, Lynn Veach. Anita Brookner. Twayne.
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Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
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Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press.
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Occupation Claire Luckham
CL has served as writer-in-residence at several universities including Derby (1991), where she developed her play The Choice, and King's College , London (2003-04), where she was the first writer-in-residence appointed.
Luckham, Claire. “Afterword to ’The Choice’”. Plays by Women: Volume Ten, edited by Annie Castledine, Methuen Drama, pp. 113-14.
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“King’s First Artist in Residence”. Comment: The College Newsletter, No. 146, p. 13.
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Material Conditions of Writing Maureen Duffy
In July 2002 MD was working on her novel Alchemy as well as her book about history and myth (England: The Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert Square), of which...
Literary Setting Maureen Duffy
The central story line is divided between two male characters. One, an unnamed eighteenth-century historian at Queen's College, London University (a fictional version of King's ), narrates much of the action in letters to his...

Timeline

14 August 1829: King's College, University of London, was...

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14 August 1829

King's College, University of London , was founded and given a charter; it opened its doors two years later.

1 May 1848: Queen's College for Women (a secondary, not...

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1 May 1848

Queen's College for Women (a secondary, not a post-secondary institution) was founded in London to educate prospective governesses and improve girls' education generally.

9 April 1858: Queen Victoria signed the royal charter giving...

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9 April 1858

Queen Victoria signed the royal charter giving London University (then comprised of two schools, University College and King's College ) the revolutionary power of offering courses and degrees externally.

1952: Rosalind Franklin began her research in molecular...

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1952

Rosalind Franklin began her research in molecular biology at King's College .

1953: Queen Elizabeth College, London University,...

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1953

Queen Elizabeth College, London University , was incorporated with a royal charter as a mixed-sex institution. Having developed from a subsidiary women's branch of King's College, London , it was folded back into King's in 1985.

1953: Queen Elizabeth College, London University,...

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1953

Queen Elizabeth College, London University , was incorporated with a royal charter as a mixed-sex institution. Having developed from a subsidiary women's branch of King's College, London , it was folded back into King's in 1985.

1975: Anne Sayre, in her biography Rosalind Franklin...

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1975

Anne Sayre , in her biography Rosalind Franklin and DNA, set the record straight about Franklin's part in the Nobel-prize-winning research previously credited exclusively to James D. Watson , Francis Crick , and Maurice Wilkins .

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