King's College, University of London

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). He was also a...

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...

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...

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...

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. She began a...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...