Queen's College, London

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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/.
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...
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 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
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 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...
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.
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