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Education | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
took first-class honours in her degree in law from Manchester University
, after cramming for her final exams. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin, 1987. 44 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Christabel Pankhurst | In 1904, with urging from her recently-made friend Esther Roper
, CP
considered studying law at Lincoln's Inn, as her father had done before her. Her application was dismissed on the grounds that she would... |
Education | Pam Gems | Pam Price (later PG)
attended Manchester University
, where she received an honours BA in psychology. Burkman, Katherine H. “The Plays of Pam Gems: Personal/Political/Personal”. British and Irish Drama since 1960, edited by James Acheson, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, 1993, pp. 190-01. 191 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Going to college would have been the natural sequel to doing well as a pupil-teacher. Several people tried to make it possible for MG
to follow this route, and when she wrote her memoirs sixty... |
Education | Sarah Kane | At school, SK
directed plays by Shakespeare
, as well as Joan Littlewood
's musical Oh, What a Lovely War. She took a BA degree in drama at Bristol University
(first class honours), and... |
Education | Dora Marsden | DM
studied for her BA at Owen's College, Manchester University
. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury, 1990. 14, 21 |
Education | Alison Uttley | Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) was one of only four students to graduate with a BSc in Physics from Victoria University of Manchester
, and the first woman to do so in a regular... |
Education | Alison Uttley | From Lady Manners School Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) won a Major County Scholarship to Owens College
in Manchester, then part of the federal Victoria University, but incorporated in 1903 into Victoria University of Manchester |
Education | Gillian Slovo | GS
attended Manchester University
, where she took her BA in 1974. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Employer | Marie Stopes | MS
taught at the Victoria University of Manchester
(now Manchester University). Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
's eldest surviving brother, Harold Baily Dixon
, later a CBE, attended Oxford and became a chemistry professor at Victoria University, Manchester
. He was the President of the Chemical Society, and earned a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Dunmore | Her mother, born Betty Smith, took university degrees at Manchester
and Oxford
universities. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 267 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eva Gore-Booth | During her second stay in Italy, EGB
met Esther Roper
, a graduate of Victoria University
(Manchester) and a suffrage campaigner. Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988. 1, 51 Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols. 6: 408 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jean Rhys | JR
's father, Dr William Rees (or Rhys) Williams
, was the second and less-favoured son of a Welsh Anglican clergyman. Sources give both spellings of her father's second name, with no explanation for the... |
Occupation | John Oliver Hobbes | Hobbes volunteered for a number of causes, giving talks in honour of friends, at universities, and for charitable and political causes. After her return from the USA in 1906, she gave talks at the Imperial Industries Club |
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