University of Manchester

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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 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 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 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.
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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.
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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.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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