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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Jane Austen | |
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 . 197 |
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... |
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. 3 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. 100 Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press. 153 |
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. 162-3 |
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, pp. 41-62. 42 Presumably this was during the years when this institution was known as King's College London Ladies' Department |
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... |
Publishing | Maureen Duffy | |
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... |
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... |
Reception | Maureen Duffy | Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1985. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. The Author. Alexander P. Watt. Autumn 1999: 96 |
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. 68 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maureen Duffy | During her final year at King's College
, MD
married in England, then went to Italy; her marriage lasted ten years. “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. |
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. |
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. 29-30 |
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