Gibbons, Stella. The Bachelor. Dodd, Mead, 1944.
prelims
North London Collegiate School
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Stella Gibbons | She dedicated the novel to Brenda Bennet
and Stella Crow
, two old friends from North London Collegiate School
. The frontispiece quotes Maria Edgeworth
's Leonora. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998. 28 |
| Education | Stella Gibbons | After her governess attempted suicide, SG
enrolled in North London Collegiate
, the school founded by Frances Mary Buss
, a pioneer in women's education. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998. 26-7 |
| Education | Marie Stopes | MS
became a pupil at North London Collegiate School
in London. Hall, Ruth, b. 1933. Marie Stopes: A Biography. Deutsch, 1977, http://University of Waterloo - Porter. 31-2 |
| Education | Stevie Smith | SS
attended the famous North London Collegiate School
for girls, where she did poorly and first learnt to be bored. qtd. in Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988. 27, 28-9 |
| Education | Ruth Padel | She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate
) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short... |
| Employer | Emily Hickey | EH
became a lecturer in English Literature at North London Collegiate School for Girls
(a secondary school), founded in April 1850 by Frances Mary Buss
, who was still headmistress. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 167 Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995. 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 | Kate Clanchy | While the family was in Edinburgh, KC
's mother, Joan Clanchy
, was the Headmistress of St George's School for Girls
(which numbers Ménie Muriel Dowie
among its distinguished former students). Scott, Jane. “By Virtue Of An Explosive Arts Debut”. The Herald, 30 Dec. 1996. |
Timeline
4 April 1850: The North London Collegiate School for Ladies,...
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4 April 1850
The North London Collegiate School for Ladies
, founded by Frances Mary Buss
as her own venture, re-opened with its new and enduring name at its new address, 46 Camden Street.
Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
271
Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
25
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Buss
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
1890: Clara Collet published The Economic Position...
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1890
Clara Collet
published The Economic Position of Educated Working Women.
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
95
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
78
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