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Changing women's lives : a biography of Dame Rosemary Murray / Alison Wilson ; with a foreword by Prince Philip ; designed by Camilla Fellas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Alison, author.
- Philip, Prince, consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1921-2021, author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murray, Rosemary, 1913-.
- Murray, Rosemary.
- Women educators--England--Biography.
- Women educators.
- Women college teachers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Luton, England] ; London, England : Andrews UK Limited : Unicorn Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rosemary Murray (1913-2004) was the eldest of six children in a happy, talented and energetic family whose deeply-engrained attitude of service to the community she inherited. She studied chemistry at Oxford, becoming one of the first women at LMH to achieve a DPhil. in science, and began an academic career as a lecturer at Royal Holloway College. The charmed world of Rosemary's childhood and student days vanished abruptly with the outbreak of war. Enlisting in the WRNS as a rating, she ser...
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Frontispiece; W.W. Spooner; Forward by HRH Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh; Dedication; Author's preface; Body matter; 1 The Admiral's daughter; 2 Early life and schooldays; 3 Launching out: Neuchâtel and Oxford; 4 Student life; 5 Royal Holloway College and Sheffield University: the outbreak of war; 6 Life in the WRNS; 7 The Girton years; 8 The Third Foundation for Women; 9 New Hall: early days as a Limited Company; 10 New Hall: from Approved Foundation to College; 11 University responsibilities; 12 Vice-Chancellor
- 13 The final years at New Hall14 Retirement; Back matter; Abbreviations; Bibliography; List of illustrations; Also available
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed July 17, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-910065-35-8
- 1-910065-34-X
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