“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Occupation | Susan Miles | 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. |
Education | Willa Muir | The Carnegie Trust
funded Willa Anderson (later WM
) to work on a thesis on the problems raised by sex in education at Bedford College
, London; she never finished the thesis. Allen, Kirsty, and Willa Muir. “Introduction”. Imagined Selves, edited by Kirsty Allen and Kirsty Allen, Canongate Classics, p. v - xiii. vii Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Willa Muir | 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... |
Employer | Ann Oakley | AO
was a Research Officer in the Social Research Unit
at Bedford College, University of London
. Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press. |
Publishing | Eleanor Rathbone | Rathbone's chapter originated as a paper entitled The Harvest of the Women's Movement, which she had delivered at Bedford College
in November 1935 as one of the Fawcett Lecture series and printed under the... |
Employer | F. Mabel Robinson | FMR
hoped to become a painter, and devoted most of [her] girlhood to painting Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke. 326 |
Education | Carol Rumens | |
Employer | Jo Shapcott | 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... |
Education | Freya Stark | FS
studied at Bedford College, University of London
. Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House. 33, 39 |
politics | Anna Swanwick | Well before she became a feminist, AS
on her first arrival in London became interested in the plight of little girls whose working-class parents kept them at home to mind the baby while their brothers... |
politics | Anna Swanwick | 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... |
politics | Anna Swanwick | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | 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 |
Textual Production | Anna Swanwick | In May 1898 and in 1899 AS
addressed large audiences at the Jubilee ceremonies at both Queen's
and Bedford College
. On the former occasion she was introduced to Queen Victoria
. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 223 |
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