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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. 26, 51-2 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. 51 |
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>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 466-71. 468 Dobson, Michael. “And That Rug!”. London Review of Books, pp. 26-7. 26 |
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. 31, 69 |
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... |