Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London

Before holding the figurehead position of Visitor to Bedford College , she had already served in the capacity of lady visitor (with responsibility to maintain discipline: in effect a chaperone) in the mathematics classes given...

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...

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...

She then taught ethics and philosophy at Bedford College —rather briefly, for she decided that teaching was not her metier, and resigned to become a full-time writer.

After Oxford (where she gave the lectures which launched her scholarly career), HW applied for various academic jobs, which her biographer Monica Blackett considers it lucky she did not get. (Many of these jobs included...

After leaving Bedford College , WM began lecturing to Bryant and May female factory workers at the Mansfield House University Settlement in Canning Town in London. It was at the Bryant and May match...

Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer , Anna Brownell Jameson , Frances Power Cobbe , Thomas Carlyle , George MacDonald , Lady Eastlake , Elizabeth Rundle Charles , Lady Martin

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.

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...

FMR hoped to become a painter, and devoted most of [her] girlhood to painting before the full development of her interest in social and political issues. Vernon Lee in Miss Brown, 1884, somewhat...

JS began teaching English at Rolle College in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth , which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then...

AO was a Research Officer in the Social Research Unit at Bedford College, University of London .

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...

Carol-Ann Lumley (later CR ) attended Bedford (then a women's college, and a school of London University), to study philosophy.

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...