Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London
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Employer | Ann Oakley | |
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... |
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. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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... |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | BH
and Elizabeth Robins
wrote jointly to the Times Literary Supplement, advocating an extension of the Sussex Hospital for Women and Children
and advertising a literary fundraising bazaar to be held in Brighton. Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, p. 750. 750 |
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... |
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