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Education | Andrea Levy | AL
attended Highbury Hill Grammar School
, where she studied the Victorians on her history syllabus and Shakespeare
and the Metaphysical poets for A-level English (an exam which, she says, she nearly failed). She got... |
Education | Malorie Blackman | According to CA and to the British reference work Who's Who, she went to Thames Polytechnic
(which had been formed by merger in 1970 and after further mergers became the University of Greenwich
in... |
Employer | Michèle Roberts | MR
read manuscripts for publishers; she taught literature, sexual politics, and creative writing at places like the City Literary Institute or City Lit
, Battersea Arts Centre
, and the Oval House
in Kennington; she... |
Employer | Michèle Roberts | After leaving her first marriage MR
got a position in summer 1987 as Theatre Writer in Residence at Essex University
, on the strength of her ideas about theatre and the first play which she... |
Employer | Zoë Fairbairns | After early success as a novelist, it began to seem impossible for ZF
to combine her three passions—feminism, left-wing politics . . . and novel-writing. She settled for work in journalism instead. Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1987. 168 |
Occupation | Andrea Levy | During her early, drifting years AL
worked designing woven textiles, but realised in about ten minutes that designing was not for her. Levy, Andrea. “Back to my Own Country”. British Library Windrush Stories, 2018. |
Occupation | Penelope Mortimer | For two years after that, she was Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at Boston University
in Massachusetts. She failed, however, to get a position at the City Literary Institute
, and therefore returned to... |
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 | Kate Clanchy | KC
wrote on Yeats
for the London City Lit
publication Magma in August 2003. Clanchy, Kate et al. “The Lyrics”. Magma, Vol. 13 , poetrymagazines.org.uk, Aug. 2003, pp. 11-18. 11-18 |
Textual Features | Andrea Levy | The essay, Back to my Own Country, considers the ways in which writing has helped AL
to understand herself and her heritage (of which, she says, many Caribbean Britons are ignorant because information is... |
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