Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890.
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Education | Susan Hill | Some years later she had a flirtation with the scholarly life that led her to register for a degree in Shakespeare
Studies at the University of Birmingham
. She abandoned this degree after a term... |
Education | Constance Naden | CN
became a student at Mason College
(also known as Mason Science College), where she studied physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, physiology, and geology. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890. 18, 22,67-8 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Constance Naden | While studying there she won in 1885 the Panton prize for an essay on the geology of the district, and in 1887 the Heslop gold medal, the highest prize that has ever been offered to... |
Education | Louise Page | LP
took a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University
in 1976 (the year her first play received a reading at the Royal Court Theatre
). She followed it with a post-graduate degree... |
Employer | Bryony Lavery | BL
was a Tutor-Lecturer for Birmingham University
on their MA course in playwriting. “Bryony Lavery”. doollee.com: Playwrights. |
Employer | Louise Page | In 1979 LP
had a post at the University of Sheffield
as Yorkshire Television
's Fellow in Drama and Television. She was also employed to teach at the University of Birmingham
. In 1982-3 she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marina Warner | Some years after her second divorce, MW's partner was Nicholas Groom
, a linguist teaching at the University of Birmingham
. Haslett, Jane. Interview with Marina Warner. 14 Nov. 2000. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | The younger of ES
's sisters, Margaret, did unpaid voluntary work. Rose
, her elder sister, took a first-class honours degree in history and became a distinguished academic, first at Somerville College, Oxford
, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Giberne | AG
's paternal aunts were closely associated in their youth with the young John Henry Newman
and his brother Francis W. Newman
. Sarah married a curate working for William Wilson (AG
's grandfather).... |
Friends, Associates | Constance Naden | CN
met Dr Robert Lewins
, of the Army Medical Department
, at Southport on the River Mersey in Western Lancashire, in 1876. Described as a man of great culture, of wide travel and... |
Friends, Associates | Constance Naden | At least two of her instructors at Mason College
later counted themselves her friends: William R. Hughes
and geologist and educationalist Charles Lapworth
. The latter was a distinguished scholar (the first to posit the... |
Leisure and Society | Constance Naden | Around the same time that CN
attended Mason College, she was also a member and President of the Birmingham Ladies' Debating Society
, and for a time she edited the Mason College
magazine. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890. 31, 69 |
Occupation | Anne Devlin | The success of AD
's first play, Ourselves Alone, in 1985 led to several new opportunities for her. She became an associate director at the Royal Court Theatre
in London and took up positions... |
Publishing | Samuel Johnson | The Johnson Dictionary Project (University of Birmingham
) now offers a searchable online text of both the first and the revised fourth edition. |
Publishing | Constance Naden | During the same year (two years since its founding) Mason Science College
(later part of Birmingham University) launched a college magazine. The first number of the first volume carried a sonnet by CN
entitled Hercules... |