Alice Walker (scholar)
Alice Walker (8 December 1900 – 14 October 1982) was a British scholar of the Elizabethan and Jacobean era, Jacobean writer Thomas Lodge and the poet and playwright William Shakespeare. Life Walker was born in 1900 in Crumpsall in Manchester. Her parents were George Edward and Mary Alice Walker. She went to school at Blackburn High School for Girls. She did well at Royal Holloway College graduating in 1923 and three years later she gained her doctorate for her thesis on the Elizabethan and Jacobean writer Thomas Lodge. She decided that she should write a four volume description of Lodge's works and obtained a Jex-Blake scholarship. She travelled for a year before beginning three years of lecturing at the Royal Holloway, University of London, Royal Holloway from 1928 to 1931 and then she does not appear to have taken paid work until she became a librarian in 1939. In 1933 she published ''The Life of Thomas Lodge'' again about this physician and writer of the sixteenth century ...
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Crumpsall
Crumpsall is an outer suburb and electoral ward of Manchester, England, north of Manchester city centre, bordered by Cheetham Hill, Blackley, Harpurhey, Broughton, and Prestwich. The population at the 2011 census was 15,959. Historically part of Lancashire, Crumpsall was a township within the parish of Manchester, Salford Hundred. North Manchester General Hospital is in Crumpsall. History The name Crumpsall derives from old English and means a "crooked piece of land beside a river".Crumpsall: Districts and suburbs of Manchester
Retrieved on 08 September 2009 It is first mentioned in 1291. In 1472, Crumpsall was held in socage by James Radcliffe subject to an annual rent of ten