Fairbairns, Zoë. “Poetry and Drama”. Zoë Fairbairns.
University of St Andrews
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Willa Muir | While at St Andrews University
, WM
was frustrated and annoyed by gender stereotyping: The theory of female inferiority did not square with the actual strength and courage of women, and probably never had done... |
| Education | Zoë Fairbairns | ZF
obtained her MA (as a first degree) from the University of St Andrews
, the oldest university in Scotland. |
| Education | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later LOM
) attended a course in logic, taught by Professor D. G. Ritchie
, at St Andrews University
in Scotland. Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975. 30-1 |
| Education | Mary Gawthorpe | She had recently been taking classes in singing at Leeds College of Music
(another subject in which she was awarded a scholarship). A course in elocution at the same institution proved useful later on, in... |
| Education | Willa Muir | Willa Anderson (later WM
) left St Andrews University
with a first-class degree in Classics. A bursary had funded her education at St Andrews. St Andrews had established a degree by an examination fornon-resident... |
| Education | Fay Weldon | Fay Birkinshaw (later FW
), on her eighteenth birthday, left London to enter St Andrews University
, St Andrews, on a scholarship, to study economics and psychology. Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002. 193 Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983. 14: 751 |
| Education | Fay Weldon | Fay Birkinshaw (later FW
) left St Andrews University
having qualified for her MA (a first degree in Scotland) in economics and psychology; she did not actually collect her degree for some years. Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002. 229 Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press, 1996. 506 Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983. 14: 751 |
| Education | Fay Weldon | At first she could not afford the money, or later the time; then she forgot about it. After more than thirty years St Andrews
wrote to challenge her claim to have been educated there; they... |
| Education | Helen Bannerman | Helen Watson (later HB
) graduated with an L.L.A. (Lady Literate in the Arts) through external examinations under the auspices of the University of St Andrews
, two years before it and other Scottish universities... |
| Education | Anne Carson | After her receiving her undergraduate degree in 1974, AC
embarked on a Master's program in Classics, again at the University of Toronto
, in 1975. While enrolled at Toronto she travelled to St Andrews in... |
| Education | Zoë Fairbairns | While an undergraduate at the University of St Andrews
, ZF
spent a year studying at the College of William and Mary
in Williamsburg, Virginia,USA, for one year during her degree course at St Andrews University |
| Employer | Willa Muir | Willa Anderson (later WM
) began working in the Classics Department at St Andrews University
, where she served as an assistant in Latin. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Employer | Kathleen Jamie | She has been a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews
, where she taught for half the year only. She is now Professor of Poetry at Stirling University
. Kathleen Jamie: University of St Andrews. http://web.archive.org/web/20070819071949/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/jamie/home.html. Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol. 9 , 1 Mar. 2001– 2024, pp. 39-40. 39 “Kathleen Jamie (b. 1962 )”. Scottish Poetry Library, 2013. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
's eldest son, Alexander Colville
, was educated for the ministry in Scotland before travelling to Europe to teach Hebrew and physics at the protestant academy at Sedan in the French Ardennes. He... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Willa Muir | At twenty years old, Willa Anderson (later WM
) met her first love, Cecil Wilmot Morrison
, a medical student at St Andrews University
and a star university rugby player. Their engagement, made in the... |
Timeline
About 1411: The University of St Andrews was founded...
National or international item
About 1411
The University of St Andrews
was founded by Henry Wardlaw
, Bishop of St Andrews, Scotland.
Rashdall, Hastings. Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Editors Powicke, Sir Frederick Maurice and Alfred Brotherston Emden, Clarendon, 1987, 3 vols.
III: 302
Whitaker’s Almanack. 119th ed., J. Whitaker, 1987.
509
Some sources note that this founding could have taken place as early as 1410.
1451: After a petition by James II of Scotland,...
Building item
1451
After a petition by James II of Scotland
, initiated by William Turnbull
, the University of Glasgow
was founded under a Bull of Pope Nicholas V
.
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
1524
Rashdall, Hastings. Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Editors Powicke, Sir Frederick Maurice and Alfred Brotherston Emden, Clarendon, 1987, 3 vols.
II: 311-2.
3 November 1729: Professor Thomas Simson Chandos of the University...
Building item
3 November 1729
Professor Thomas Simson Chandos
of the University of St Andrews
published The System of the Womb . . ..
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
October 1865: Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's...
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October 1865
Elizabeth Garrett
obtained an apothecary's licence through the Society of Apothecaries
: this began her medical career, after her rejection by the Universities of London
, Edinburgh
, St Andrews
, Oxford
, and Cambridge
.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
156
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
106
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
66
February 1877: The Senate of St Andrews University established...
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February 1877
The Senate of St Andrews University
established a distance qualification for women: the Licentiate, or LA, of equal standard to the MA (which was and is in Scotland a first degree).
Bell, Robert, b. 1930, and Malcolm Tight. Open Universities: A British Tradition?. Open University Press, 1993.
76
1881: University College, Dundee, was founded....
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1881
University College, Dundee, was founded.
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1596
Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
650-51
29 September 1904: Gertrude von Petzold, a German Unitarian,...
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29 September 1904
Gertrude von Petzold
, a German Unitarian
, became the first woman to act as a minister in England since before the Victorian age.
Kaye, Elaine. “A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: The Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 505-12.
506
Gilley, Keith. “The ministry of women”. The Guardian, 25 Sept. 2004, p. 29.
29
1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...
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1926
New statutes at Cambridge University
first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
328
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Girton College”. British History Online, 2012.
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