Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London

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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.
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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.
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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.
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The pen with which she is said...
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 records a manuscript, part handwritten and part typewritten, but does not give its location.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The book had a Tauchnitz edition in...
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/.
In 1930 she was awarded an annual...
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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1849: Bedford College, initially known as the Ladies'...

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1849

Bedford College , initially known as the Ladies' College in Bedford Square, or Mrs Reid's Ladies College , was founded.

1849: Bedford College, initially known as the Ladies'...

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1849

Bedford College , initially known as the Ladies' College in Bedford Square, or Mrs Reid's Ladies College , was founded.

February 1858: Bessie Rayner Parkes described to George...

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February 1858

Bessie Rayner Parkes described to George Eliot , in a letter, the limited company established by the Langham Place group to support The English Woman's Journal.

1859: Future anti-slavery lecturer and Bedford...

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1859

Future anti-slavery lecturer and Bedford College graduate Sarah Parker Remond , an African American from the northern US, arrived in England.

12 October 1874: The College for Working Women was established...

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12 October 1874

The College for Working Women was established in Fitzroy Street in London.

1886: Royal Holloway College for women was founded...

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1886

Royal Holloway College for women was founded at Egham in Surrey, twenty miles from London, and opened by Queen Victoria .

1886: Royal Holloway College for women was founded...

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1886

Royal Holloway College for women was founded at Egham in Surrey, twenty miles from London, and opened by Queen Victoria .

31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...

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31 October 1910

Frances Olive Underhill , a graduate of Royal Holloway College , was appointed by E. W. B. Nicholson Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian : the first woman so appointed in England, after considerable infighting and...

1913: Caroline Spurgeon became the first woman...

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1913

Caroline Spurgeon became the first woman professor in Britain when she was named Professor of English Literature at Bedford College .

11 July 1919: University women from Britain, the USA, and...

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11 July 1919

University women from Britain, the USA, and Canada met in London to plan the founding of the International Federation of University Women, which held an inaugural conference at Bedford College , London, in 1920.

1948: The University of London appointed Professor...

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1948

The University of London appointed Professor Lilian Penson vice-chancellor, the first time a woman held this position at a British university.

Early 1975: Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company was founded...

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Early 1975

Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company was founded as a result of plans by a London co-operative community arts resource centre, Inter-Action , for a season of gay plays to follow their successful women's season.

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