“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
University of Manchester
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Gillian Slovo | |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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, 1849–2025, 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 |
| 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 |
Timeline
Before 20 September 1653: Humphrey Chetham planned the organisation...
Building item
Before 20 September 1653
Humphrey Chetham
planned the organisation which, after his death on this date, opened as the first public library in the modern world: Chetham's Library
in Manchester (sometimes known as Cheetham's
).
“Chetham’s Library: a brief history and illustrated tour”. Chetham’s Library.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1824: The Manchester Mechanical Institute was ...
Building item
1824
The Manchester Mechanical Institute
was founded.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
783
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
1997: 1563
1824: The Manchester Mechanical Institute was ...
Building item
1824
The Manchester Mechanical Institute
was founded.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
783
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
1997: 1563
1851: Owens College opened in Manchester; in 1871...
Building item
1851
Owens College
opened in Manchester; in 1871 it began to admit women.
Evans, Keith. The Development and Structure of the English Educational System. University of London Press, 1975.
247-8
Curtis, Stanley James. Education in Britain since 1900. Greenwood Press, 1970.
434-9
1851: Owens College opened in Manchester; in 1871...
Building item
1851
Owens College
opened in Manchester; in 1871 it began to admit women.
Evans, Keith. The Development and Structure of the English Educational System. University of London Press, 1975.
247-8
Curtis, Stanley James. Education in Britain since 1900. Greenwood Press, 1970.
434-9
1871: Owens College in Manchester became the first...
Building item
1871
Owens College
in Manchester became the first university institution in England to admit women.
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
36-7
Curtis, Stanley James. Education in Britain since 1900. Greenwood Press, 1970.
192
1871: Owens College in Manchester became the first...
Building item
1871
Owens College
in Manchester became the first university institution in England to admit women.
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
36-7
Curtis, Stanley James. Education in Britain since 1900. Greenwood Press, 1970.
192
1881: Liverpool University College was founded...
Building item
1881
Liverpool University College was founded.
Barnard, Howard Clive. A History of English Education from 1760. 2nd ed., University of London Press, 1961.
198
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1608
1928: The Geiger or Geiger-Müller counter, a device...
Building item
1928
The Geiger or Geiger-Müller counter, a device which detects and measures radioactivity, was produced in a form close to that still in use by Hans Geiger
and Walther Müller
at the University of Kiel
in...
21 June 1948: Developed at the University of Manchester,...
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21 June 1948
Developed at the University of Manchester
, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, also known as the Manchester Baby Machine, became the first computer able to store and recall programmes.
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, and William Aspray. Computer. Basic Books, 1996.
100
Napper, Brian. “The University of Manchester Celebrates the Birth of the Modern Computer”. Computer 50.
July 2010: BPP University College of Professional Studies...
Building item
July 2010
BPP University College of Professional Studies
was awarded the status of a university or degree-granting body: only the second private or for-profit organization of this kind in the UK.
Hotson, Howard. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 11, 2 June 2011, p. 19. 19
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