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Education Betty Miller
Betty Spiro (later BM ) received a diploma in journalism from University College, London after a two-year course.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
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Education Penelope Mortimer
Penelope Fletcher (later PM ) was educated at private schools all over the place,
Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26.
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at least one of them hopelessly incompetent.
Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion.
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Around the time that her mother became mortally ill, in 1928, Penelope...
Education Monica Furlong
From Harrow County Girls' SchoolMF won a place at University College, London , but she did not take a degree (something that she later regretted). Higher education for girls was not part of her...
Employer A. E. Housman
AEH , who had been working as a clerk at the Patent Office and pursuing his scholarly interests in his own time at the British Museum , was offered a Chair in Latin at University College, London .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Employer A. S. Byatt
ASB was a lecturer at University College , London.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Sophie Veitch
SV 's elder sister, Zepherina Philadelphia (whose name on marriage became Smith), was born on 1 April 1836 at Sopley in Hampshire. After the family returned from Palestine she became successively an early student at...
Family and Intimate relationships Julia Frankau
JF 's brother James was born in 1853.
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He took a law degree at University College, London , but after practising as a solicitor for some years he too became a writer. He edited several...
Family and Intimate relationships Harriett Mozley
Her next brother, Charles Robert, became what would later be called a dropout, causing expense and embarrassment to his family. Her younger brother, Francis William Newman , became Professor of Latin at the ecumenical University College, London
Literary responses Emma Caroline Wood
Not all responses to this novel were negative. Professor Henry Morley of University College, London , wrote an unsolicited letter which was printed and circulated to defend Sorrow on the Sea from the prevailing charges...
Material Conditions of Writing John Oliver Hobbes
She wrote it during 1891 and 1892, while she was a student at University College, London , and dedicated it to Alfred Goodwin , her academic mentor, who had died in the February of 1892...
Occupation Barbara Pym
She came to this job via an introduction from a friend in the WRNS, Frances Kendrick , whose aunt Beatrice Wyatt was Secretary of the Institute. At the Institute, Pym worked for Daryll Forde ...
Occupation Arthur Hugh Clough
He was appointed to the Chair of English Language and Literature at University College, London (which operated no such religious discrimination as Oxford), and later worked as an examiner for the Education Office in London.
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press.
Occupation Marie Stopes
She also taught at London University, and became a Fellow of University College, London , in 1910. At this stage her research focussed on paleobotany, the study of fossil plants. (Her work in the field...
Occupation Alison Fell
In 1986 AF was a writing fellow at the New South Wales Institute of Technology in Sydney, . In 1998 she held the Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia , in the School...

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