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Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | The settlement's school for disabled children, its play schools, and summer schools were an enormous success, and were eventually copied world-wide. As a tribute to the invaluable role played by MAW
in its foundation, the... |
Occupation | Alison Uttley | After teacher training at Cambridge, Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) took up a post as Junior Science Mistress at a London County Council
Secondary School in Fulham in suburban London. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 67 |
Education | Berta Ruck | BR
studied art first at Lambeth School of Art, then, on a London County Council
scholarship, at the Slade School of Art
in London, where she was taught by Henry Tonks
. She then... |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | Three years after the death of her first husband
, EN
married Thomas Terry Tucker
(known as the Skipper), a marine engineer and captain of the London County Council
ferry at Woolwich. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Occupation | Willa Muir | She designed the curriculum to incorporate the students' knowledge of textiles into academic lessons in history, English, and geography. She also designed practical courses in hand-loom weaving, fashion-drawing, pattern-designing, colouring. Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press. 51 |
politics | Lucille Iremonger | She was a Conservative in politics (like her husband), and belonged successively to the Conservative Association
s of Ilford (his constituency, where she was the association's vice-president) and Norwood in South London. She was a... |
Textual Features | Kathleen E. Innes | Whereas her first book for Hogarth was historical, this book was intended as a primer on the structure and aims of the League. It was adopted for use in London County Council
schools, as was... |
Reception | Kathleen E. Innes | The book's popularity undoubtedly came from its having been approved for use in London County Council
schools. KEI
, a former schoolteacher, still had connections with teachers and knew what teaching materials were needed. |
Residence | Violet Hunt | VH
lived at South Lodge until her death. The Greater London Council
placed a commemorative blue plaque there, but as of 2002, it acknowledged South Lodge only as one of the residences of VH
's... |
Textual Production | Winifred Holtby | WH
was a prolific and well-known journalist, and Time and Tide was a key forum for her writing. Her first article, The Human Factor, appeared there on 22 February 1924. The essay dealt with... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Since no translator's name appears, it is possible though by no means certain that MAH
here wrote in French. She covers her subject—British democracy in its history, manifestations, and underlying nature—lucidly and succinctly. Part... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kate Parry Frye | KPF
's father, Frederick Charlwood Frye
, attended Saffron Walden Grammar School
and worked as a clerk and grocer. During the late nineteenth century his grocery business did very well, expanding into a chain, and... |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF
's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party
: her mother
expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association
meetings hosted in the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Philippa attended Newnham College
(the women's college founded by the efforts of her parents) and was marked higher than any other final-year student in mathematics at Cambridge
in 1890, embarrassing the university since the title... |
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