Birkbeck College, University of London

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Education Annie Besant
By 1880 she was qualified to teach several subjects including chemistry, botany, mathematics, physiology, and basic physics.
Dinnage, Rosemary. Annie Besant. Penguin, 1986.
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However, in 1886, after failing chemistry three times, AB gave up on the possibility of obtaining her...
Employer Ruth Padel
RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds.
Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm.
website
Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...
Employer Meiling Jin
MJ has worked at various very different jobs.
Jin, Meiling, and Hiang Kee. Gifts from My Grandmother. Sheba Feminist, 1985.
prelims
In a poem she says, i used to be a Chinese Social Worker / but now i'm just a Chinese.
Jin, Meiling, and Hiang Kee. Gifts from My Grandmother. Sheba Feminist, 1985.
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She teaches communications at Birkbeck College
Occupation Marina Warner
MW is now (2021) a professor of English literature and creative writing at Birkbeck College, London .
Occupation Michelene Wandor
In recent years, MW has taught creative writing in England, Italy, and Israel. She has held two Fellowships from the Royal Literary Fund : at the University of Hertfordshire in 2004-5 and...
Reception Margaret Cavendish
Douglas Grant published a life in 1957: Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Late in the twentieth century, interest in her and her work escalated steeply. The first...
Reception Marina Warner
Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...
Textual Production Maggie Gee
MG delivered the William Matthews lecture at Birkbeck College , London: How May I Speak in My Own Voice? Language and the Forbidden.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Timeline

1823: The London Mechanics' Institution was founded...

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1823

The London Mechanics' Institution was founded in London by Dr Birkbeck; in 1920 it became Birkbeck College, University of London .
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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June 1830: The London Mechanics' Institution, founded...

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June 1830

The London Mechanics' Institution , founded in 1823, began admitting women.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
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Kaye, Elaine. A History of Queen’s College, London, 1848-1972. Chatto and Windus, 1972.
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