Slade School of Fine Art
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The Slade School of Fine Art (informally "The Slade") is a world-renownedart school
Art school
Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or...

 in London, United Kingdom, and a department of University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

. It consistently ranks among the premier Art and Design educational institutions in the UK.

History

The school traces its roots back to 1868 when Felix Slade
Felix Slade
Felix Joseph Slade FRA , was an English lawyer and collector of glass, books and engravings.A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a philanthropist who endowed three Slade Professorships of Fine Art at Oxford University and Cambridge University, and at University College London, where he also...

 (1788–1868) bequeathed funds to establish three Chairs in Fine Art
Fine art
Fine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....

, to be based at Oxford University, Cambridge University and University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

, where six studentship
Studentship
United StatesIn the US a studentship is similar to a scholarship but involves summer work on a research project. The amount paid to the recipient is normally tax-free, but the recipient is required to fulfill work requirements. Types of studentships vary among universities and countries....

s were endowed. The Slade operates two studios, one for undergraduate students, the other for postgraduates only.

Distinguished past teachers include Henry Tonks
Henry Tonks
Henry Tonks, FRCS was a British draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist...

, Wilson Steer, Randolph Schwabe, William Coldstream
William Coldstream
Sir William Menzies Coldstream was a British realist painter and a long standing art teacher.-Biography:...

, Andrew Forge
Andrew Forge
Andrew Murray Forge was a British painter, academic, and art critic....

, Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud
Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time...

, Reg Butler
Reg Butler
Reginald Cotterell Butler was an English sculptor. He studied and lectured at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London from 1937 to 1939. He was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, being exempted from military service conditional upon setting up a small...

, Keith Vaughan
Keith Vaughan
John Keith Vaughan was a British painter.Born in Selsey, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the war, when as a conscientious objector he joined the St John's Ambulance. In 1941 he was conscripted into the Non-Combatant Corps. Vaughan was self-taught...

, Robert Medley
Robert Medley
Charles Robert Owen Medley CBE, RA, , always known as Robert Medley, was an English painter who worked in both abstract and figurative styles, and a theatre designer...

, Phyllida Barlow
Phyllida Barlow
Gillian Phyllida Barlow is a British sculptor and art academic. She was Professor of Fine Art and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Slade School of Art.- Personal background :...

, John Hilliard
John Hilliard (artist)
John Hilliard, is an English artist.Hilliard studied at Lancaster College of Art and St Martins School of Art, London. He lives and works in London...

, Bruce McLean
Bruce McLean
Bruce McLean is a Scottish performance artist and painter.McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at St Martin's School of Art, London,from 1963 to 1966...

, Alfred Gerrard
Alfred Gerrard
Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture there from 1949 to 1968, where he taught a number of well-known sculptors.-Early life:Gerrard was born on 7 May 1899 in...

 and Roger Fry
Roger Fry
Roger Eliot Fry was an English artist and art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism...

.

Two of its most important periods were immediately before, and immediately after, the turn of the twentieth century, described by Henry Tonks as its two 'crises of brilliance'. The first included the students Augustus John
Augustus John
Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom....

, William Orpen
William Orpen
Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA was an Irish portrait painter, who worked mainly in London...

 and Percy Wyndham Lewis; the second – which has been chronicled in David Boyd Haycock
David Boyd Haycock
David Boyd Haycock is a British writer of non-fiction. He is the author of Paul Nash , William Stukeley , Mortal Coil and A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War , a group biography of the artists Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and C.R.W...

's A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (Old Street Publishing, 2009) – included the students Dora Carrington
Dora Carrington
Dora de Houghton Carrington , known generally as Carrington, was a British painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey....

, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash
Paul Nash (artist)
Paul Nash was a British landscape painter, surrealist and war artist, as well as a book-illustrator, writer and designer of applied art. He was the older brother of the artist John Nash.-Early life:...

, C.R.W. Nevinson and Sir Stanley Spencer.

In late 2010 the Slade School Of Fine Art was occupied by students in protest of the current Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government’s proposed cuts to its (and other art schools) teaching budget.

Rankings

In a recent peer review survey conducted by The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...

the Slade recorded perfect scores.
Faculty Rankings
2010
The Guardian University Guide 1st
The Complete University Guide 2st
The Times Good University Guide 2st

Teaching

The faculty currently offers the following programs:
  • Undergraduate Studies


– 3-year BFA in Fine Art

– 4-year BA in Fine Art
  • Graduate Studies


– 2-calendar year (18 months) MFA in Fine Art

– 2-academic year (24 months) MA in Fine Art

– 1-term, 2-term, of 1-year Graduate Affiliate Study
  • Research


-MPHIL or PHD in Fine Art

Notable alumni

Full list see :Category:Alumni of the Slade School of Art

  • Michael Andrews
    Michael Andrews (artist)
    Michael Andrews was a British painter.-Life and work:Michael Andrews was born in Norwich, England, the second child of Thomas Victor Andrews and his wife Gertrude Emma Green. He completed his two years' National service between 1947 and 1949, nineteen months of which was spent in Egypt...

    , painter
  • Amelia Bauerle
    Amelia Bauerle
    Amelia Bauerle was a London-born painter, illustrator and etcher who was also known as Amelia Bowerley. She was the daughter of the German artist Karl Wilhelm Bauerle. She studied at the South Kensington School of Art and the Slade before travelling in Italy and Germany...

    , painter and illustrator
  • Pauline Baynes
    Pauline Baynes
    Pauline Diana Baynes was an English book illustrator, whose work encompassed more than 100 books, notably those by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. She was born in Hove, Sussex....

    , illustrator
  • David Bomberg
    David Bomberg
    David Garshen Bomberg was an English painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys.Bomberg was one of the most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks, and which included Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer, C.R.W. Nevinson and Dora Carrington...

    , painter
  • Raymond Briggs
    Raymond Briggs
    Raymond Redvers Briggs is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children...

    , illustrator, graphic novelist
  • Cecily Brown
    Cecily Brown
    Cecily Brown, born 1969 in London, is a British painter. She has a great respect for art history and her works reveal her reverence and high regard for artists such as Francisco de Goya, Nicolas Poussin, Willem de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell while incorporating into her works her distinct female...

    , painter
  • Felicia Browne
    Felicia Browne
    Felicia Mary Browne was an English artist. She was the first British volunteer to die in the Spanish Civil War.-Early years:...

    , painter and Spanish Civil War
    Spanish Civil War
    The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

     Volunteer=
  • Dora Carrington
    Dora Carrington
    Dora de Houghton Carrington , known generally as Carrington, was a British painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey....

    , artist
  • G. K. Chesterton
    G. K. Chesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction....

    , writer
  • Sir William Coldstream
    William Coldstream
    Sir William Menzies Coldstream was a British realist painter and a long standing art teacher.-Biography:...

    , painter
  • Professor Paul Coldwell
    Paul Coldwell
    Paul Coldwell is a British artist. Born in London, he studied fine art at the West of England College of Art from 1972-75 and then studied printmaking at postgraduate level at the Slade School of Art 1975-77 where his teachers included Barto. Dos Santos and Stanley Jones. He was employed as...

    , artist
  • John Collier
    John Collier (artist)
    The Honourable John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI , called 'Jack' by his family and friends, was a leading English artist, and an author. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry...

  • Susan Alexis Collins
    Susan Alexis Collins
    Susan Collins PhD, is an English artist and academic; one of the UK's leading artists working with digital media.Collins works across public, gallery and online spaces. Her recent works mainly employ transmission, networking and time as primary materials, often exploring the role of illusion or...

    , artist
  • Ithell Colquhoun
    Ithell Colquhoun
    Ithell Colquhoun was a British Surrealist painter and author. She was born in Shillong, Eastern Bengal and Assam, British India...

    , painter and writer
  • William George Constable
    William George Constable
    William George Constable William George Constable William George Constable (born Derby, England, 27 October 1887, died Cambridge, Massachusetts, 3 February 1976, was an art historian and gallery director.-Education:...

    , art historian
  • Dennis Creffield
    Dennis Creffield
    Dennis Creffield is a British artist with work owned by major British art collections, including the Tate Gallery, Arts Council of England, the Government Art Collection, Leeds City Art Gallery, University of Leeds collection, University of Brighton collection and others.-Early life and...

    , painter
  • Yitzhak Danziger
    Yitzhak Danziger
    Yitzhak Danziger was an Israeli sculptor. He was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the "Ofakim Hadashim" group.- Biography :Danziger was born in Berlin in 1916 to a Zionist family...

    , sculptor
  • Mark Gertler, artist
  • Martin Creed
    Martin Creed
    Martin Creed is an artist and musician. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for Work No. 227: the lights going on and off, which was an empty room in which the lights went on and off.-Life and work :...

    , artist
  • Tacita Dean
    Tacita Dean
    Tacita Dean is an English visual artist who works primarily in film. She is one of the Young British Artists, and was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998.-Life and work:...

    , artist
  • Sholto Johnstone Douglas
    Sholto Johnstone Douglas
    Robert Sholto Johnstone Douglas , known as Sholto Douglas, or more formally as Sholto Johnstone Douglas, was a Scottish figurative artist, a painter chiefly of portraits and landscapes....

    , artist
  • Philip Firsov
    Philip Firsov
    Philip Firsov — British painter and sculptor of Russian origin.Born in Moscow in the family of two Russian composers Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov, he left Russia in the age of 6. The family settled in England...

     artist and sculptor
  • Tom Flint
    Tom Flint
    Tom Flint is a British artist. He studied Fine Art Printmaking at The Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1995 to 1997, under the professorships of both Bartolomeu dos Santos and Bruce McLean....

     painter and printmaker
  • Mary Sargant Florence
    Mary Sargant Florence
    Mary Sargant Florence was a British painter of figure subjects, mural decorations in fresco and occasional landscapes in watercolour and pastel. She was born in London, née Sargant, sister of the sculptor F.W. Sargant. She studied in Paris under Luc-Olivier Merson and at the Slade School under...

     painter
  • Nicholas Garland
    Nicholas Garland
    Nicholas Withycombe Garland is a political cartoonist for the Daily Telegraph. He had previously drawn for The New Statesman, The Spectator and The Independent....

     political cartoonist
  • Alfred Gerrard
    Alfred Gerrard
    Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture there from 1949 to 1968, where he taught a number of well-known sculptors.-Early life:Gerrard was born on 7 May 1899 in...

    , sculptor
  • Dryden Goodwin
    Dryden Goodwin
    Dryden Goodwin is a British artist, known for his intricate drawings, often in combination with photography, film, large-scale, screen-based installations and soundtracks.- Selected works :...

    , artist
  • Douglas Gordon
    Douglas Gordon
    Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist; he won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale...

    , artist
  • Antony Gormley
    Antony Gormley
    Antony Mark David Gormley OBE RA is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in the North of England, commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site...

    , sculptor
  • Eileen Gray
    Eileen Gray
    Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray was an Irish furniture designer and architect and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.- Biography :...

    , designer and architect
  • Vaughan Grylls
    Vaughan Grylls
    -Early life:Born 10 December 1943, Newark-on-Trent. Attended art schools at Nottingham, Wolverhampton,Goldsmiths and the Slade School of Fine Art.-Pun-sculptures:...

    , artist
  • Richard Hamilton
    Richard Hamilton (artist)
    Richard William Hamilton, CH was a British painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the...

    , painter and collage artist
  • Annie Horniman
    Annie Horniman
    Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman CH was an English theatre patron and manager. She established the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and founded the first regional repertory theatre company in Britain at the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester. She encouraged the work of new writers and playwrights, including...

    , theatre owner and manager
  • Mona Hatoum
    Mona Hatoum
    Mona Hatoum is a video artist and installation artist of Palestinian origin, who lives in London.- Lebanon :...

    , artist
  • Constance Markievicz, artist, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist.

  • Patrick Heron
    Patrick Heron
    Patrick Heron , was an English painter, writer and designer, based in St. Ives, Cornwall.- Early life :...

    , abstract painter
  • Gerry Judah
    Gerry Judah
    Gerry Judah is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces...

    , artist and designer
  • Menashe Kadishman
    Menashe Kadishman
    Menashe Kadishman is an Israeli sculptor and painter.-Biography:From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem.In 1959, he moved to London, where...

    , Israeli sculptor and painter
  • Sir Osbert Lancaster
    Osbert Lancaster
    Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE was an English cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer, best known to the public at large for his cartoons published in the Daily Express.-Biography:Lancaster was born in London, England...

    , cartoonist
  • Olga Lehmann
    Olga Lehmann
    Olga Lehmann was a visual artist.Born in Catemu, Chile, to Mary Grisel Lehmann and mining engineer Andrew William Lehmann, Olga Lehmann had one sister, Monica , and one brother, George...

    , painter, illustrator and designer
  • John Long
    John Long (artist)
    John Long is an artist whose work has been exhibited in Dublin and London, as well as in the United States. He is a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and a widely-sought lecturer and teacher...

    , painter and teacher
  • John Luke
    John Luke (artist)
    John Luke was an Irish artist. He was born in Belfast at 4 Lewis Street. The fifth of seven sons and one daughter of James Luke and his wife Sarah, originally from Ahoghill. He attended the Hillman Street National School and in 1920 went to work at the York Street Flax Spinning Company...

    , painter and sculptor
  • John Lundberg
    John Lundberg
    John Lundberg is an English artist and documentary filmmaker. In the early 1990s he founded circlemakers, a UK based arts collective famous for covertly creating hundreds of the world's largest and most elaborate crop circles....

     artist and filmmaker
  • John Mascaro
    John Mascaro
    John Mascaro is a painter and self taught architect working between New York and Paris.Mascaro graduated with an MFA from the Slade School of Art in 2004. In 2008 he co-founded Mut-Architecture with Eleonore Morand...

    , artist
  • Moina Mathers
    Moina Mathers
    Moina Mathers, born as Mina Bergson , was an artist and occultist at the turn of the 20th century. She was the sister of French philosopher Henri Bergson, the first man of Jewish descent to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927...

    , artist and occultist
  • Dorothy Mead
    Dorothy Mead
    Dorothy Mead was a British painter.Mead was born in London, England,She first met David Bomberg when he was teaching at the Dagenham School of Art in 1945...

    , painter
  • Robert Medley
    Robert Medley
    Charles Robert Owen Medley CBE, RA, , always known as Robert Medley, was an English painter who worked in both abstract and figurative styles, and a theatre designer...

    , painter and designer
  • Oliver Messel
    Oliver Messel
    Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel was an English artist and one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century....

    , stage designer
  • Daniel Mulloy
    Daniel Mulloy
    Daniel Mulloy is a British artist and filmmaker. He is winner of The Golden Dragon, BIFA and BAFTA Awards.-Life and career:Born in Brixton , London, Mulloy moved to Carmarthen, Wales, as a teenager...

    , film writer and director
  • Paul Nash
    Paul Nash (artist)
    Paul Nash was a British landscape painter, surrealist and war artist, as well as a book-illustrator, writer and designer of applied art. He was the older brother of the artist John Nash.-Early life:...

    , painter
  • Gemma Nelson painter
  • C.R.W. Nevinson, artist
  • Ben Nicholson
    Ben Nicholson
    Benjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson, OM was a British painter of abstract compositions , landscape and still-life.-Background and Training:...

    , abstract painter
  • Philip Norman, artist and antiquarian
  • Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
    Eduardo Paolozzi
    Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, KBE, RA , was a Scottish sculptor and artist. He was a major figure in the international art sphere, while, working on his own interpretation and vision of the world. Paolozzi investigated how we can fit into the modern world to resemble our fragmented civilization...

    , artist
  • Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, painter and sculptor
  • Paula Rego
    Paula Rego
    Paula Rego is a painter born in Portugal although she is a naturalised British citizen.-Biography:Rego was born in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, the daughter of an electrical engineer who worked for the Marconi Company. Although this gave her a comfortable middle class home, the family was...

    , painter, illustrator and printmaker
  • Isaac Rosenberg
    Isaac Rosenberg
    Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets...

    , war poet
  • Boo Saville
    Boo Saville
    Boo Saville is a contemporary artist. She currently lives and works in London.- Career :Saville graduated from Slade School of Fine Art in 2004, then worked at a make-shift studio in Pimlico in the front room of her friend Elisa Roche's apartment...

    , New Gothic
    New Gothic Art
    -Manifesto:The Neo Gothic Art Manifesto was written by gothic artist Charles Moffat in 2001, who also coined the term "Neo Gothic" in an effort to differentiate it from gothic architecture...

     artist
  • Jenny Saville
    Jenny Saville
    Jenny Saville is a contemporary British painter; best known as one of the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of naked women.-Life and career:Saville works and lives in Oxford, England...

    , artist
  • Sir Matthew Smith, painter
  • Peter Snow (artist)
    Peter Snow (artist)
    Peter Frederick Briscoe Snow was an English painter, theatre designer and teacher. From the 1960s to the 1990s he was head of post graduate theatre design at the Slade School of Fine Art, with the help of Nicholas Georgiadis and later, Yolanda Sonnabend.-Life and work:Peter Snow, son of Sir...

    , painter and theatre designer
  • Sir Stanley Spencer, artist
  • Andrew Michael Stahl painter
  • Leo Steinberg
    Leo Steinberg
    Leo Steinberg was an American art critic and art historian and a naturalized citizen of the U.S.-Life:Steinberg was born in Moscow, Russia and grew up in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art...

    , art historian
  • William Tillyer
    William Tillyer
    William Tillyer is an English artist. His work has been shown frequently in London and New York since 1970.He studied art in his home town from 1956-9, moving south to London in the 1960s to study at the Slade School of Art. It was there where he encountered William Coldstream and Anthony Gross,...

    , artist
  • Edward Wadsworth
    Edward Wadsworth
    Edward Alexander Wadsworth was an English artist, most famous for his close association with Vorticism. He painted, often in tempera, coastal views, abstracts, portraits and still-life...

    , artist
  • Rachel Whiteread
    Rachel Whiteread
    Rachel Whiteread, CBE is an English artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She won the annual Turner Prize in 1993—the first woman to win the prize....

    , artist
  • Victor Willing
    Victor Willing
    Victor Arthur James Willing was a British painter-Life and work:Victor Willing was born in Alexandria, Egypt, the only son of George Willing, professional soldier, and his wife Irene Cynthia Tomkins. The first four years of his life were spent there and, briefly, in Malta...

    , artist
  • Nan Youngman
    Nan Youngman
    Nancy Mayhew Youngman OBE, was an English painter and educationalist: born Maidstone, Kent 28 June 1906; died Cambridge 17 April 1995. Youngman is remembered primarily as a painter, but from before the war to the mid-1960s she was an influential figure in art education, as a teacher, an author and...

    , painter and Educationalist
  • Zhi Lin
    Zhi Lin
    Zhi Lin is a Chinese 2D artist. Lin’s experience with China’s Cultural Revolution gave him an interest in political art. He lived in a Chinese town torn by civil strife. Lin states that he did not originally want his work political, and instead his work transformed after the Tiananmen Square massacre...

    , artist
  • Alfred Garth Jones
    Alfred Garth Jones
    Alfred Garth Jones was an English artist and illustrator who worked mainly in woodcut, pen and ink line art drawing and watercolour.-Early life:...

    , illustrator

In fiction

  • Barbary Deniston in The World My Wilderness
    The World My Wilderness
    The World My Wilderness is a novel published in 1950 by the English novelist, biographer and traveller Rose Macaulay , the last but one of her novels.-Plot summary:...

  • Pat Barker
    Pat Barker
    Pat Barker CBE, FRSL is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres around themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken.-Personal life:...

     in Life Class
    Life Class
    Life Class is a novel by Pat Barker released in 2007. The novel is about students at the Slade School of Art in the first years of the twentieth century, one of whom volunteers to serve in a front line hospital during the First World War....

  • Gilbert Cannan
    Gilbert Cannan
    Gilbert Cannan was a British novelist and dramatist.-Early life:Born in Manchester of Scottish descent, he got on badly with his family, and in 1897 he was sent to live in Oxford with the economist Edwin Cannan...

     in Mendel
  • Miranda Grey in The Collector
    The Collector
    The Collector is the title of a 1963 novel by John Fowles. It was made into a movie in 1965.- Plot summary :The novel is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall, and collects butterflies in his spare time...


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