Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
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University of St Andrews
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Greenwell | Among DG
's other writer friends were Elizabeth Charles
, Margaret Hunt
, and Sarah Tytler
. Bett, Henry. Dora Greenwell. Epworth Press. 18-20, 22 Gray, Janet. “Dora Greenwell’s Commonplace Book”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 57 , No. 1, pp. 47-74. 50, 51 Gray, Janet. “The Sewing Contest: Christina Rossetti and the Other Women”. A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, Vol. 8 , No. 2, pp. 233-57. 240 Hickok, Kathleen. Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Greenwood Press. 215 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Willa Muir | As a student at St Andrews University
, WM
spent two years on the editorial committee for the student journal College Echoes. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Occupation | John Stuart Mill | In 1867 Mill was made rector of the University of St Andrews
. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
| politics | Anna Swanwick | The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore... |
| Reception | Willa Muir | |
| Reception | Muriel Spark | Three more Scottish universities followed Strathclyde's lead: MS
received Honorary DLitts from Edinburgh University
in 1989, Aberdeen
in 1995, and St Andrews
in 1998. In 1995, she received a DUniv from Heriot-Watt University
, where... |
| Reception | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Professor James Stuart
, an old friend who was currently Rector of St Andrews University
, recommended that this institution award MGF
an Honorary LL.D to recognise her work for the higher education of women... |
| Reception | Helen Waddell | HW
's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from |
| Reception | Marina Warner | Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute
(1992), Trinity College, Cambridge
(1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University
(1999), Stanford University
(2000), and All Souls College
, Oxford (2001). She... |
| Reception | Fay Weldon | FW
was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of St Andrews
, only one year after she had finally collected the undergraduate degree she had earned years before from the same institution. Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo. 231 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 63: 440 |
| Reception | J. K. Rowling | These books have been credited with single-handedly raising literacy rates among children. “The Decade in Review 1997-2007”. MuggleNet. |
| Textual Features | Willa Muir | Her life-long frustration over gender inequality remains at the centre of the book. As an undergraduate at St Andrews
she observes how the patriarchal Law rated us as second-class citizens (we could not vote) and... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Murray | The full title was yet longer: A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, to the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and to the Curiosities in the District of Craven, in the... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham
, Girton
, and Somerville College
s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College
and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women |
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