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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | In the very month of her death, MAW
received an honorary degree from Edinburgh University
. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 419 |
politics | Anna Swanwick | The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore... |
Textual Production | Annie S. Swan | Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen
, Edinburgh University
, and Columbia University
, New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers... |
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. |
Residence | Mary Stewart | Frederick Stewart
, husband of MS
, accepted a position at Edinburgh University
as Regius Professor of geology. The couple moved to Edinburgh and MS
decided to make writing her full-time occupation. Stewart, Mary. About Mary Stewart. Musson. 8-9 |
Residence | Mary Stewart | MS
's husband, Sir Frederick
, retired from the University
of Edinburgh as Professor Emeritus, and in the same year the couple moved to the House of Letterawe in the Argyll village of Loch Awe (or Lochawe). Wright, Pearce. “Sir Frederick Stewart: Master geologist steering science for academic and practical ends”. The Guardian. Craig, Gordon. “Sir Frederick Henry Stewart”. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Thompson, Raymond H., and Mary Stewart. “Interview With Mary Stewart”. Taliesin’s Successors: Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature, edited by Raymond H. Thompson, The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester. |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Stevenson | She dedicated it to her grandson Paul and his parents; the last poem in the book conjures up little Paul dancing for, and stamping on, the sea. Stevenson, Anne. The Other House. Oxford University Press. v, 52 |
Reception | Muriel Spark | Three more Scottish universities followed Strathclyde's lead: MS
received Honorary DLitts from Edinburgh University
in 1989, Aberdeen
in 1995, and St Andrews
in 1998. In 1995, she received a DUniv from Heriot-Watt University
, where... |
Reception | Olive Schreiner | The Olive Schreiner Letters Project
at the University of Edinburgh
(website at www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk) has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
to transcribe, analyse and publish the complete text of Schreiner's 7,000 or... |
Textual Production | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library
and the Bodleian
have most of her publications. She was a Fellow... |
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... |
Textual Features | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | The poem is framed by a substantial first-person prose narrative about a party of people visiting the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. The speaker, evidently EJP
herself, relates how her... |
Wealth and Poverty | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham
, Girton
, and Somerville College
s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College
and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Melvill | The volume closes with A comfortabill Song (beginning Away, vain world), which expresses faith in God's mercies and a resolution to pursue the Christian calling. It takes off from or parodies a recent madrigal... |
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