University of Manchester

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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.
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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.
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Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989.
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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.
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Barash, Carol. “Dora Marsdens Feminism, the Freewoman, and the Gender Politics of Early Modernism”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1987, pp. 31-56.
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Reception Alison Uttley
AU received an Honorary DLitt from Manchester University , where she had formerly studied physics.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
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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.
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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.
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of AU 's manuscripts and first editions of her works before he died in December 1963. She...
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.
Her work is included in the first part of Nonconformist...
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.
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