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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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, 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. |
Education | Gillian Slovo | GS
attended Manchester University
, where she took her BA in 1974. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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. 14, 21 |
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. 44 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. |
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. “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. 1, 51 Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. 6: 408 |
Occupation | Jeanette Winterson | In spring 2012 her appointment was announced (for the autumn) as professor of creative writing at Manchester University
. Carter, Helen. “Creative writing professorship for Winterson”. The Guardian, p. 15. 15 |
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