University of Edinburgh

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Family and Intimate relationships Ling Shuhua
During his youth, Chen spent a decade in Britain, studying literature at Edinburgh University, then moving to the London School of Economics to take his doctorate in politics and economics with Harold Laski ...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH 's father, Robert Adamson , educated at Edinburgh University , became Professor of Logic and Metaphysics successively at Owens College (later merged in Manchester University), and the Universities of Aberdeen and then Glasgow ...
Family and Intimate relationships Shena Mackay
Her parents had met and fallen in love as students at Edinburgh University .
Family and Intimate relationships Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
Fleeming (pronounced Fleming) Jenkin had great abilities that were evident from an early age. His biographer, Robert Louis Stevenson , rates his mother's influence over him very high, and admires though he cannot wholly approve...
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.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company.
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.
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 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 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 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 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
, pp. 39-40.
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Education Sophia Jex-Blake
SJB officially applied to study medicine at Edinburgh University .
Todd, Margaret. The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake. Macmillan.
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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 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
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.
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