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home and the work and pleasure of establishing common cause with fellow men and women in the whole of China could progress on a less awkward foundation.
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Illustrations from the Illustrated London News are reproduced by permission of The British Library, shelfmark PP7611(42).
The following convention is used: when "[]" appears within a quotation, this represents that the present writer has either added letters or words missing in her copy of the original, or has supplied an explanatory comment.
The author is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, and author of The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889), published by the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, 4 Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, 1997. ISBN: 962-8027-08-5.
Educated in the United Kingdom, she has previously taught English Literature at the University of Lagos, Nigeria (she was there during the Civil War), the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has worked for Longman University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has worked for Longman Far East as an English-language editor, and she is an occasional freelance writer and journalist. She was briefly an Assistant Mistress at St Stephen's Girls' College, Hong Kong. Previous publications include articles, papers, presentations, and reviews on George Orwell, Leonard Woolf, Lafcadio Hearn, A. C. Swinburne, African Literature in English, New Zealand poetry, and numerous contributions on education in Hong Kong, with a particular focus on the creation of the Government education system under Frederick Stewart, the contributions of the first Anglican Bishop of Hong Kong, George Smith, language policy and standards from 1841 up to date, expatriate teachers, the learning of Chinese by non-Chinese, and the training and supply of translators in early Hong Kong. She has published a Bibliography of Hong Kong creative writing in English. Her entry on Frederick Stewart, commissioned by the New Dictionary of National Biography, has been accepted, and she has now been commissioned to write a revised entry on Bishop Smith, first Anglican Bishop of Victoria (who was the first Warden of St Paul's College, and based in Hong Kong).
She is married to Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, formerly Assistant Director of Education and founding Director of the Institute of Language in Education in Hong Kong (now absorbed into the Hong Kong Institute of Education).
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home and the work and pleasure of establishing common cause with fellow men and women in the whole of China could progress on a less awkward foundation.
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Illustrations from the Illustrated London New are reproduced By permission of The British Library, shelfmark PP7611 (42).
The following convention is used. when "[]" appears within a quotation, this represents that the present writer has either added letters or words missing in her
copy of the original, or has supplied an explanatory comment.
The author is Associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University and author of The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889), published by the David C. Lam Institute for Eastwest Studies, 4 Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, 1997. ISBN:962-8027-08-5.
Educated in the United Kingdom, she has previously taught English Literature at the University of Lagos, Nigeria (she was there during the Civil War), the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has worked for Longman University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has worked for Longman Far East as an English-language editor and she is an occasional freelance writer and journalist. She was briefly an Assistant Mistress at St Stephen's Girls' College, Hong Kong. Previous publications include articles, papers, presentations and reviews on George Orwell, Leonard Wolf, Lafcadio Hearn, A. C. Swinburne, African Literature in English, New Zealand poetry and numerous contributions on education in Hong Kong, with a particular focus on the creation of the Government education system under Frederick Stewark, the contributions of the first Anglican Bishop of Hong Kong, George Smith, language policy and standards from 1841 up to date, expatriate teachers, the learning of Chinese by non-Chinese, and the training and supply of trans- lators in early Hong Kong. She has published a Bibliography of Hong Kong creative writing in English. Her entry on Frederick Stewart, commissioned by the New Dictionary of National Biography, has been accepted, and she has now been commissioned to write a revised entry on Bishop Smith, first Angli- can Bishop of Victoria (who was the first Warden of St Paul's College, and based in Hong Kong).
She is married to Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, Formerly Assistant Director of Education and founding Director of the Institute of Language in Education in Hong Kong (now absorbed into the Hong Kong Institute of Education).
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