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Education | Julia O'Faolain | Meanwhile she studied abroad as well. She was awarded a summer scholarship for the University for Foreigners at Perugia, then studied at the University of Rome, 1952-3, and in Venice on an Italian... |
Education | Mary Lavin | ML
graduated with her BA from University College
, Dublin, where she had enrolled in 1930. Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne, 1978. 13, 19 Bowen, Zack. Mary Lavin. Bucknell University Press, 1975. 19 |
Education | Mary Lavin | ML
took her MA from University College, Dublin, with a thesis on Jane Austen
for which she received first class honours. Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne, 1978. 20 |
Education | Kate O'Brien | KOB
entered University College, Dublin
, on a county council scholarship to read French and English (though some relations favoured a safe job instead). Most reference works, oddly, have 1915. The prelims of the Virago |
Education | Kate O'Brien | KOB
took her BA degree in French and English from University College, Dublin
; she did not immediately take steps to choose a job. qtd. in Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. 36 |
Education | Teresa Deevy | TD
was sent as a boarder to the Ursuline convent in Waterford, where she did very well. From there she entered University College
, Dublin, in 1913, with her sights set on training... |
Education | Julia O'Faolain | JOF
received her MA from University College
, Dublin, the year following her BA from the same institution. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Education | Julia O'Faolain | JOF
took the state school-leaving exam plus a university entrance exam which was challenging partly because in Latin it had an oral component which demanded classical Latin pronunciation: the Church Latin she had learned at... |
Employer | Gerard Manley Hopkins | GMH
was appointed to a junior Chair of Classics at University College
, Dublin; the job took him away from the squalid conditions he had sometimes been preaching in but it did nothing to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Sigerson | George Sigerson
, DS
's father, was a doctor specialising in nervous disorders (a new area of research), a poet, and a Gaelic scholar. He lectured on biology at the National University of Ireland
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kate O'Brien | One of KOB
's professors at University College
encouraged her to write poetry, but both she and her friends knew that the poetry she wrote was no good. Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. 35 |
Literary Setting | Kate O'Brien | KOB
indicates her seriousness by her choice of title: it is quoted from a sonnet by George Herbert
which consists entirely of definitions or periphrases for prayer, of which this is one. Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. 117 |
Occupation | Mary Lavin | At home she lectured to the English Society at University College
, Dublin, providing, from the point of view of budding writers, an invaluable supplement to the degree course in English Literature. Kilroy, Thomas et al. “Foreword”. In a Café, Town House, 1995, p. vii - x. vii |
politics | May Laffan | As well as strongly opposing the convent or the clerical education system, ML
took a strong interest in the Irish university problem. When she was writing her novels Catholics were discouraged from attending the long-established... |
Publishing | Eleanor Sleath | This book was written during a highly social period of ES
's life, and advertised in February 1799. Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. 8 May 2011, http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 761 |
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