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Textual Production Constance Naden
CN made a visit back to Mason College in Birmingham to deliver an address on Herbert Spencer 's The Principles of Sociology to the sociological section of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society .
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Constance Naden
CN had meanwhile, three years before Gladstone's essay, given up writing poetry, which she came to see as essentially lightweight. Her friends tended to blame for this the influence of Robert Lewins , who later...
Textual Production Frances Ridley Havergal
Papers of FRH 's survive at Worcestershire Record Office and at the University of Birmingham .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production G. B. Stern
GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one.
Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell.
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The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...
Residence Marie Corelli
She planned to endow her house as a gift to the nation, but financial difficulties intervened. It now houses the University of Birmingham 's Shakespeare Institute .
Davison, Carol. “Review: Teresa Ransom: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli</span>; Annette R. Federico: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Idol of Suburbia</span&gt”;. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 466-71.
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Dobson, Michael. “And That Rug!”. London Review of Books, pp. 26-7.
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Reception Constance Naden
While still a student CN was winning awards for her science essays: the Paxton prize in 1885 for an essay on geology, and in 1887 Mason College 's Heslop gold medal for one on Induction...
Reception Constance Naden
The Constance Naden Medal was still being awarded at the University of Birmingham , where there is also a bust of the poet and room named for her, into the twenty-first century.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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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...
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)....
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...

Timeline

By April 1799: The Church Missionary Society was founded...

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By April 1799

The Church Missionary Society was founded by the Evangelical wing of the Church of England , as the Society for Missions in Africa and the East.

1 October 1880: Mason College or Mason Science College in...

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1 October 1880

Mason College or Mason Science College in Birmingham, founded at a cost of more than £200,000 by Sir Josiah Mason , who had made his fortune out of nibs for pens, opened its doors to students.

Early 1900: The University of Birmingham was founded...

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Early 1900

The University of Birmingham was founded.

11 July 1919: University women from Britain, the USA, and...

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11 July 1919

University women from Britain, the USA, and Canada met in London to plan the founding of the International Federation of University Women, which held an inaugural conference at Bedford College , London, in 1920.

1951: Theatre historian Allardyce Nicoll established...

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1951

Theatre historian Allardyce Nicoll established the Shakespeare Institute ; it is part of Birmingham University and is housed in Mason Croft at Stratford, formerly the home of novelist Marie Corelli .

30 May 1954: Diane Leather of Birmingham University became...

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30 May 1954

Diane Leather of Birmingham University became the first woman in the world to run a mile in five minutes; earlier the same month Roger Bannister did the first four-minute mile.

11 January 1967: The Society for Protection of Unborn Children,...

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11 January 1967

The Society for Protection of Unborn Children , an anti-abortion group, was formed at Wells in Somerset.

Texts

Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham.