Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
came home from Royal Holloway College
with her BA in classics, to teach her younger sisters and to coach her brother Noel
for his exams. Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz. 159 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ivy Compton-Burnett | The protagonist, a clergyman's daughter, lives up to her name. She is a child at her mother's graveside in the book's opening scene: by the age of thirty-three she has repeatedly sacrificed her hopes of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosalind Coward | RC
is married to Professor John Ellis
, Head of the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London
. In addition to publishing on visual media, he ran Large Door Productions
from... |
Education | Richmal Crompton | RC
received her BA in Classics from Royal Holloway College, London University
, where she held several scholarships. Cadogan, Mary. Richmal Crompton. Sutton. 37 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | George Eliot | GE
was always ambivalent about the struggle for women's rights. This ambivalence may have been fed by the fact that her situation with Lewes made her peculiarly vulnerable to public attack of a personal flavour... |
Education | Jane Gardam | She was twelve when she overheard her English teacher telling her parents that she was clever, well ahead of the standard for her age. By this time she was attending Saltburn High School
for Girls... |
Education | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was educated at Dresden in Germany, then at Cheltenham Ladies' College
(a secondary school), Queen's College
, and Bedford College
. She graduated from London University
with a BA in Arts, having studied... |
Occupation | Beatrice Harraden | BH
undertook various kinds of public service. She sat on the English committee for awarding the Femina Vie Heureuse
prize, and became a governor of Bedford College
in 1929. During the 1930s she was a... |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | In March 1908 BH
read a chapter of Ships that Pass in the Night at a concert given by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 276 |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | The copyright statement of this book was dated 1896, the preface September 1896, and the title-page 1897. It does not appear to have been published in Britain. Preface and dedication are signed by Harraden's co-author |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | The present Royal Holloway College (merged with Bedford)
holds correspondence with Methuen and Co.
dating from 1907-09 which includes letters of advice from BH
. A projected book on Ruskin
is discussed and another, on... |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | BH
also wrote for the Bedford College
Magazine and the Cheltenham Ladies' College
Magazine: for the former in 1915 she described her war-work with the Commission for Relief in Belgium
. On 17 June... |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | Royal Holloway College
holds a manuscript of twenty-one chapters of this novel. “Harraden, Beatrice 1864-1936”. AIM25: Royal Holloway, University of London. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | BH
is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | BH
set her name to the earliest of her several letters to the Times, this one together with Hertha Ayrton
and Mary Augusta Ward
, as an effort to raise money for a building... |
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