King's College, University of London

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Susan Hill
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...
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.
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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
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...
Literary Setting Storm Jameson
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...
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.
Warnock, Mary, Baroness. “The Greatest Happiness”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4028, 6 June 1980, p. 632.
632
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, 1994, pp. 113-14.
113
“King’s First Artist in Residence”. Comment: The College Newsletter, No. 146, Mar. 2003, p. 13.
13
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Four stories by KM , written in about 1908, remained unpublished.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...
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.
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Morgan, Janet. “Introduction: The Squire’s Daughter”. The Rector’s Daughter, Virago, 1987, p. v - xii.
vii
He was the eighth in a household...
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 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
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
He was also a...
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...
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.
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