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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Valentine Ackland | Until the age of sixteen, VA
was educated at Queen's College
in Harley Street, London, which she likened to a convent and described as a most expensive public school for young ladies. Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus. 36 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 13 |
Education | Gertrude Bell | GB
attended Queen's College
, a girls' school in Harley Street, London; that her parents sent her there reflected both Gertrude's outstanding intellectual abilities and her parents' progressive attitudes toward girls' education, for most... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Davies | ED
's early awareness of the movement for women's education developed through her brother Llewelyn
's involvement with F. D. Maurice
in Queen's College
, Harley Street, London. Llewelyn became Principal of the College from 1873 to 1886. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 27-8 |
Education | Florence Farr | FF
studied at Queen's College
, London, but did not pursue any regular course of study and often abstained from examinations. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 17-19 |
Employer | Penelope Fitzgerald | After the war PF
worked chiefly as a journalist and teacher. The story goes that she adopted elaborate procedures to conceal her identity when submitting work to Punch, which was under her father's editorship... |
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... |
Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
began the term at Queen's College, London
, having astonished her peers by expressing a desire to become a teacher (a controversial decision for one of her social class), in order to rectify the... |
Employer | Sophia Jex-Blake | While she was a student at Queen's College, London
, SJB
became by invitation a maths tutor there. For this she received a salary, her acceptance of which was disparaged by her father, who wrote... |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | In 1865, the Kensington Society
, a quarterly women's discussion group devoted to social and political issues, held their inaugural meeting. SJB
became a member through her connections with Queen's College
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Sarah Lewis | Kathryn Hughes
notes that SL
's support of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution
(founded in 1843), and their efforts (via Queen's College
, founded on 1 May 1848) to establish a system of qualification for governesses... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucas Malet | LM
's father was the Rev. Charles Kingsley
, a clergyman who was already making a name as a Christian social activist and a novelist. Before her birth he had also held a part-time appointment... |
Education | Katherine Mansfield | Kathleen Beauchamp (later KM
) and two of her sisters attended Queen's College
, Harley Street, London. Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press. 401-2 |
Textual Production | Katherine Mansfield | The Queen's College
Magazine printed a story by Kathleen M. Beauchamp (later KM
): The Pine Tree, the Sparrows, and You and I. Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press. 30 |
Education | Adelaide Procter | In 1850, AP
was among the first students to attend Queen's College
for women students. One of the teachers here was Charles Kingsley
, and it has been argued that she was more influenced by... |
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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