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Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | Under pressure from SJB
, the Chancellor of Edinburgh University approved a proposal to admit the first female medical students at a British university. Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990. 102 |
Education | Sir J. M. Barrie | James Barrie studied at Edinburgh University
, where he earned his MA (in Scotland the first degree taken) in 1882. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | J. K. Rowling | She then enrolled at Moray House
(a teacher training college then attached to Heriot-Watt University
but now part of Edinburgh University
) for a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education, without which she would not be qualified... |
Education | Thomas Carlyle | He attended Annan Academy
and, starting in 1809, the University of Edinburgh
. He intended to enter the clergy but later changed his mind. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. |
Education | Karen Gershon | At fifteen she found herself not at a real school but at a temporary training centre, Whittingehame Farm School at East Lothian inScotland. After to some extent recovering from her recent experiences she won... |
Education | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | He then entered Edinburgh University
as a medical student—just after the university had successfully fought off the women seeking admission to the medical faculty. His most significant mentor was Joseph Bell
(who was attached not... |
Education | Oliver Goldsmith | After various local schools he attended Trinity College, Dublin
, as a sizar: a poor student who financed his course by acting as a servant to other students. He was often in trouble with the... |
Education | Kathleen Jamie | But having drifted to Edinburgh, she attended Edinburgh University
, where she studied for and received her MA in philosophy (in Scotland a first degree). Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol. 9 , 1 Mar. 2001– 2024, pp. 39-40. 40 |
Education | Charlotte Stopes | Charlotte Carmichael (later CS
) took classes for women conducted by members of Edinburgh University
who were concerned about the exclusion of females from the University. 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, 1990. |
Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
officially applied to study medicine at Edinburgh University
. Todd, Margaret. The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake. Macmillan, 1918. 235 |
Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
placed an advertisement in The Times asking women interested in entering a medical faculty to contact her. Her aim was to institute separate lectures for women and eventually that women should matriculate at Edinburgh University |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stewart | While she was successfully pursuing her writing, he was building up the University of Edinburgh
's Earth Science department, tripling its size. Among his many accomplishments and honours, he was elected a Fellow of the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Brunton | Her widower, devastated at her death, later became professor of oriental languages at Edinburgh University
, and lived until 1854. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle
was installed as Rector of Edinburgh University
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986. 266 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ling Shuhua | During his youth, Chen
spent a decade in Britain, studying literature at Edinburgh University, then moving to the |
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