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After finishing her degree course at Girton College , Dora Black (later Russell ) studied French, and eighteenth-century French literature in particular, at University College, London . She did her work mainly in the British Museum

Her written journalism was complemented by public speaking and broadcasting on the BBC : on women's rights, literature, travel, and English society. She made her first radio broadcast on 18 April 1928, a...

GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one. The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...

From there she gained entrance to the honours programme at University College, London , reserved mainly for male students.

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...

JS 's papers are held by University College London .

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...

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...

SV 's family returned to England presumably before and perhaps long before 1867 (when Sophie's elder sister entered University College, London ). They settled in Paddington in central London, her...

HW 's actual surviving letters to Byron were published (with some editorial revising and omission) in the Cornhill Magazine in April 1935. Those to Brougham (written 1824-32) followed in book form in 1975. Those...

Contemporary admirers of HW on literary grounds included Walter Scott , who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out a better writer than Teresia Constantia Phillips or others in the...

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...

Arnold represented a fascinating subject for a biographer interested in the shades of religious faith and their interaction with secular politics. Worboise relates his experiences as a member of the Senate of the new London University