University of Birmingham

Some years after her second divorce, MW's partner was Nicholas Groom , a linguist teaching at the University of Birmingham .

GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one. The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

CN became a student at Mason College (also known as Mason Science College), where she studied physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, physiology, and geology.

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 .

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...

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...

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...