{"id":50993,"date":"2016-12-29T01:57:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T01:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50993"},"modified":"2016-12-29T01:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T01:58:03","slug":"elizabeth-anionwus-memoir-mixed-blessings-from-a-cambridge-union-exceeds-all-superlatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50993","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Anionwu\u2019s Memoir: Mixed Blessings From A Cambridge Union Exceeds All Superlatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/claudia-tomlinson\/elizabeth-anionwus-memoir_b_13820132.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Elizabeth Anionwu\u2019s Memoir: <\/strong><\/em><strong>Mixed Blessings From A Cambridge Union<\/strong><em><strong> Exceeds All Superlatives<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@Claudia_writes\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Claudia Tomlinson<\/strong><\/a>, Author, campaigner, entrepreneur<br \/>\n<em>London, England<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"302\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/claudia-tomlinson\/elizabeth-anionwus-memoir_b_13820132.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/2016-12-23-1482522553-2775915-image2-thumb.JPG\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethanionwu.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Anionwu<\/a>: Photograph by Barney Newman<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethanionwu.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Anionwu<\/a> is a diminutive woman of colossal talent in everything she has turned her hand to, and to top off a high achieving career, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48902\" target=\"_blank\">her memoir<\/a> has now outed her as a wonderful author.<\/p>\n<p>She was born in 1947, from the relationship between her father, a Nigerian student, and her mother Mary, a Classics student whose family came from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/County_Wexford\" target=\"_blank\">County Wexford<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/County_Down\" target=\"_blank\">County Down<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a>, to settle in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liverpool\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their romance blossomed at Cambridge University, at a time of discrimination against both black and Irish people in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Born into a strong Catholic family on her mother\u2019s side, Elizabeth\u2019s arrival, to unmarried parents, was a shock to her mother\u2019s family threatening to bring great shame to the family&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/claudia-tomlinson\/elizabeth-anionwus-memoir_b_13820132.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Anionwu\u2019s Memoir: Mixed Blessings From A Cambridge Union Exceeds All Superlatives The Huffington Post 2016-12-28 Claudia Tomlinson, Author, campaigner, entrepreneur London, England Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Anionwu: Photograph by Barney Newman Elizabeth Anionwu is a diminutive woman of colossal talent in everything she has turned her hand to, and to top off a high achieving 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