King's College, University of London

The heroine, Laurence Storm, begins as a nineteen-year-old student in the third year of her classics course at King's College, London . She is the only woman and the top student in her subject. Laurence...

While studying at King's CollegeSH , an aspiring writer, wrote to novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson and her writer husband C. P. Snow for advice on the profession. The couple answered her letters and even...

SH was awarded her BA Honours in English from King's College, London University .

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.

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.

MD attended King's College, London , where she obtained an honours BA in English in 1956.

During her final year at King's College , MD married in England, then went to Italy; her marriage lasted ten years.

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...

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 . While she was at...

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...

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...

Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985. She was also granted life membership of the Society of Authors in recognition of her work for Public Lending Right.

As an adult, MEC studied English Literature at King's College for Women ; she took a particular interest in Elizabethan drama.

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.

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...