qtd. in
Friel, James, and Jenny Newman. “A. S. Byatt”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction through Interviews, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Hodder Headline, 2004, pp. 36-53.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Characters | A. S. Byatt | ASB
says that this book and its three successors are about the desirability of an androgynous mind. qtd. in Friel, James, and Jenny Newman. “A. S. Byatt”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction through Interviews, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Hodder Headline, 2004, pp. 36-53. 43 |
Characters | Jane Gardam | The stories are set in and around a hotel, formerly an eighteenth-century colonial mansion, in Jamaica at the close of the expensive, fashionable season, and most of them feature English people startled, shocked, or reinvigorated... |
Characters | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Characters | Frances Browne | The second story, Found in the Far North, is narrated in the first person by a young Cambridge
student from Norwich whose failure to heed his father's advice about choosing his company with care... |
Cultural formation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
Education | John Donne | He was admitted while very young to Oxford University
(where he did not, however, take his degree) and later to Lincoln's Inn
. He was a law student when he wrote most of his love-poetry... |
Education | Jane Barker | She later had some expertise in medicine, which it seems she may have learned from her brother or some of his Cambridge
friends. Biographer Kathryn King
concludes that JB
had a more than passing acquaintance... |
Education | Margaret Drabble | MD
received a BA in English with double first-class honours from Cambridge University
(Newnham College
). Sadler, Lynn Veach. Margaret Drabble. Twayne, 1986. 4 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. 192 |
Education | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
achieved a Class II in the English Tripos (the first of two exams deciding class of degree awarded) at Cambridge
. This was the first year that women were awarded degrees, at least in name. Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang, 1989. 55 “Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: A Chronology”. University of Cambridge. |
Education | Selima Hill | SH
received her BA in English from Cambridge University
, after a course interrupted by illness, which therefore took longer than the norm. Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol. 6 , 1 June–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 39-40. 39 British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Education | Toru Dutt | TD
and Aru
were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop, 1972. |
Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | Encouraged by Mary Paley
, one of Newnham College
's first students, JEH
took and passed the Cambridge University
Examination for Women. She finished as top candidate and received a scholarship from Newnham. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001. 33-4 |
Education | Susanna Centlivre | It was said that she read Molière
at twelve, and that she disguised herself as a boy in order to study at Cambridge University
. All this, however, belongs to a dubious area of fictionalisation... |
Education | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
defended her Cambridge
dissertation, which was supervised by I. A. Richards
, with E. M. Forster
as external advisor. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995. 130, 132 “Obituary: Mrs. Q.D. Leavis”. Times, 19 Mar. 1981, p. 16. 16 |
Education | Anna Eliza Bray | At home, she taught herself Italian and also received instruction in Latin from Michael Slegg
, a friend of her brother's from Cambridge University
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884. 103-4 |