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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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... |
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 |
Cultural formation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
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 |
Education | Mary Webb | Mary Meredith (later MW
) attended Cambridge University
extension lectures on literature and history, until ill health intervened. Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth, 1978. 74-5 |
Education | May Sinclair | MS
visited Professor Henry Melvill Gwatkin
at Cambridge
, and was treated to a series of conversations on history, philosophy, and metaphysics which amounted to informal tutorials. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 66-7 |
Education | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen Royds
(later Innes) received her Teacher's Diploma in Theory (Class I) and Practice, from Cambridge University. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 23-4, 244 |
Education | Q. D. Leavis | She won the Charity Reeves and Thomas Montefiore Prizes to begin her doctoral dissertation, also at Cambridge
. |
Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | |
Education | Maggie Gee | MG
gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge
by Queenie Leavis
, whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats
in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis |
Education | Elizabeth von Arnim | May was a strong student. In the Senior Certificate public examination in July 1883 she emerged top in history among pupils at all Ealing schools, and she particularly impressed her examiners with an essay about... |
Education | Lady Rachel Russell | Mary Berry
, who wrote that LRR
spent her youth in those occupations which it has been agreed to call the education of females, Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. x |
Education | Susan Miles | She also attended more than one school in London. Novelist John Cowper Powys
(whose lectures she had attended) wrote her a recommendation for a Cambridge
scholarship, but she was not successful in gaining one. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |