University of Newcastle

While writing Tilly Trotter, CC also worked on A Dinner of Herbs, a single volume of 250,000 words published in 1985. The manuscript, now at Newcastle University , demonstrates how her notes relate...

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...

In 1991, told that she might die at any time, CC instructed her husband to burn her manuscript notes, diaries, and letters, as well as the autobiography in progress. Her annotated copy of Lord Chesterfield

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...

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)...

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

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...