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 | 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 |
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... |
Cultural formation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
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. |
Education | Ethel M. Arnold | The school, which was populated by the daughters of Oxford dons who had recently been allowed to marry and have families, had a feminist atmosphere. The students debated topics like rational dress and women’s education... |
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 | 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. |