University of Newcastle

As a young adult CC took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to...

In LondonFA worked as a librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (which bought her a few hours of solitude each day to write in) until she took the plunge and became a...

She has also held writer-in-residence positions at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham (as Northern Arts Literary Fellow, 1988-90), Queen's University, Belfast (1991-3 and again 1995-8), University College, Cork (1994), and the Stockholm University (Spring...

As a teacher of creative writing at the University of Newcastle , JK has worked with students on their literary manuscripts. She frequently does readings (and mocks the way writers try to glamorize this activity...

After becoming known as a poet Fanthorpe held several writer-in-residence posts. The offer of a year as Arts Council writer in residence at St Martin's College , Lancaster in 1983 moved the hospital to give...

JS began teaching English at Rolle College in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth , which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then...

They had first met and begun to live together in 1939. Gowing (seventeen years younger than Strachey) was a painter, educator, and critic who acted as a Tate Gallery trustee, from 1948 to 1958...

The strength of EB 's influence on British and Irish poetry was variously recognised during the 1980s by Andrew Motion , Seamus Heaney , James Fenton , and Eavan Boland , and during the 1990s...

A re-issue of 1833 is known only from a single copy at the University of Newcastle .

GA was appointed to a two-year Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at the University of Newcastle .

Also in 1982, CC received an honorary master's degree from Newcastle University . With typical doubleness, she said the degree had finally replaced the chip on her shoulder while simultaneously expressing disappointment at only receiving...

AS has held a number of awards: a Scottish Arts Council award, 1974, a Welsh Arts Council award, 1980, a Northern Arts Literary Fellowship at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham , 1981-2, and...

In 2003 JS published The Transformers, a later incarnation of her talks in the Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures series. She was the fourth poet to deliver, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne , the...

Bloodaxe Books published CR 's Self into Song, a version of three public lectures given at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .

Her historical importance has been recognised by two recent biographies, those of Janet Wallach , 1996 (Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia)...