Carter, Helen. “Creative writing professorship for Winterson”. The Guardian, 12 May 2012, p. 15.
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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, 12 May 2012, p. 15. 15 |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | One of her many arrests (this one together with Dora Marsden
and Rona Robinson
) came at Victoria University, Manchester
, on 4 October 1909, when they faced the prospect of prison and force-feeding, though... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | VW
rejected on principle an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Manchester
. In March 1939 she rejected another honorary doctorate, from the University of Liverpool
. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1972, 2 vols. 2: 172 Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989. 155 |
politics | Dora Marsden | DM
, Mary Gawthorpe
, and Rona Robinson
were arrested in their academic gowns at Manchester University
after protesting against the recent start of force-feeding at Birmingham's Winson Green Prison
. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury, 1990. 36 Barash, Carol. “Dora Marsdens Feminism, the Freewoman, and the Gender Politics of Early Modernism”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 49 , No. 1, 1987, pp. 31-56. 39 |
Reception | Alison Uttley | AU
received an Honorary DLitt from Manchester University
, where she had formerly studied physics. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986. 243-4 |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | Yggdrasill, the magazine of Ashburne House
, the women's residence at Victoria University of Manchester
, printed a poem by Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) about university life which contained the refrain Argument. qtd. in Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986. 57 |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | Dr Irvin Kerlan
of the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota
, bought a substantial number Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986. 219 |
Textual Production | Anna Steele | A collection of 56 letters from William Michael Rossetti
to AS
, written between 1888 and 1911, is held by the University of Manchester
. The National Archives Catalogue. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/default.asp. |
Textual Production | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
spoke on Women's Suffrage at the Women's Debating Society
of Owen's College, Manchester
. Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, 1983, pp. 184-02. 202n3 |
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