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Family and Intimate relationships | Joanna Baillie | JB
's father, James Baillie
, was a Presbyterian minister, a socially conscious man who saw to the medical as well as the spritual needs of his parish. He was later a professor of divinity... |
Education | John Buchan | After going to school in several different towns as his father was allotted to various parishes, JB
went on a scholarship to Glasgow University
, where he specialised in classics and was taught by Gilbert Murray |
Education | Catherine Carswell | CC
attended the Glasgow School of Art. On her return from Frankfurt she studied English Literature at Queen Margaret's College
, the women's college which for nearly a decade had been part of Glasgow University |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Carswell | Donald Carswell, a scholarly writer, had also worked for the Glasgow Herald and as a sub-editor in London for The Times. The two had met in Glasgow many years before this, and had worked... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marie Corelli | MC
's stepfather—and possible biological father or grandfather—Charles MacKay (born 1814), was a writer and editor. Among the periodicals he worked for were the Morning Chronicle, alongside Charles Dickens
; the Daily Telegraph... |
Other Life Event | Emily Davies | ED
was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the University of Glasgow
, in the first group of women thus honoured. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 354-5 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Dempster | CD
met Isabella Elder
, an important advocate for education and the founder of the women's medical school at Queen Margaret College
in Glasgow (which became part of the University of Glasgow in 1892). Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards. 141 “Biography of Isabella Elder”. University of Glasgow: The University of Glasgow Story. “Queen Margaret College”. Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, University of Glasgow: History. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's father, Robert Adamson
, educated at Edinburgh University
, became Professor of Logic and Metaphysics successively at Owens College
(later merged in Manchester University), and the Universities of Aberdeen
and then Glasgow
... |
Reception | Emily Lawless | Many of EL
's papers survive, although they are scattered. The largest collection is at Marsh's Library
in Dublin. Collections of her correspondence survive in the Bodleian Library
, Oxford, the Hove Central Library |
politics | Liz Lochhead | Backed by the Scottish Nationalist Association
, LL
ran for the position of Rector of Glasgow University
, for which she was in the end runner-up. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 238 Walker, Alison, and Craig W. McLuckie. “Awards/Honours/Resident Writer”. Liz Lochhead: An Annotated Bibliography. |
Family and Intimate relationships | L. M. Montgomery | In 1906 LMM
became engaged to solid, sensible Ewan Macdonald
, who had recently taken a position as minister of the Presbyterian church at Cavendish, P.E.I. They could not marry until her dependent grandmother no... |
Reception | Maude Royden | The University of Glasgow
awarded MR
an honorary Doctorate in Divinity, making her the first woman to receive the degree. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (31 July 1956): 10 “Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour. under Maude Royden |
Reception | Freya Stark | The text was published to rave reviews in the Sunday Times, the Observer, and other papers. For her piece in The Spectator, Vita Sackville-West
wrote an open letter to the author rather... |
Literary responses | Anne Stevenson | AS
says this book fell all but dead Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 124 Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research. 9: 284 |
Publishing | Lady Arbella Stuart | Two nineteenth-century editions of LAS
's letters—by Elizabeth Cooper
, 1866, and E. T. Bradley
, 1889—preceded the modern scholarly one by Sara Jayne Steen
(1994). The complete correspondence of Bess of Hardwick is now... |
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