{"id":3220,"date":"2014-10-15T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2014-12-05T13:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T13:14:24","slug":"comparative-literature-student-publishes-on-aviator-diana-patten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/10\/15\/comparative-literature-student-publishes-on-aviator-diana-patten\/","title":{"rendered":"SECL student publishes on aviator Diana Patten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greer Harris, a mature student studying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/undergraduate\/comparative-literature-and-english-and-american-literature.html\">Comparative Literature and English and American Literature<\/a>, has just published\u00a0a biography on the Kent aviator and socialite Diana Patten.<\/p>\n<p>The book, entitled <em>Redhead in the Clouds: How I Started Headcorn Aerodrome <\/em>(Berforts Group, 2014), looks at the extraordinary life of Patten, who re-established Headcorn Aerodrome in the sixties. The aerodrome was an important airfield for America, Canada and British airmen in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Greer is studying part-time at the University of Kent\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/tonbridge\/index.html\">Tonbridge Centre<\/a> and is in the final year of her degree course.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Comparative Literature<\/a> student has published\u00a0a debut book in as many years, following on from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2013\/02\/11\/comparative-literature-student-publishes-debut-novel\/\">Lesley Gray&#8217;s publication of\u00a0<em>The King&#8217;s Jockey\u00a0<\/em>(Solis Press, 2013) last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Redhead in the Clouds<\/em>\u00a0is published by <a href=\"http:\/\/berforts.co.uk\/\">Berforts<\/a> and is available\u00a0from <a href=\"http:\/\/headcornaerodrome.co.uk\/index.html\">Headcorn Aerodrome<\/a> or by telephoning 01424 812479.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greer Harris, a mature student studying Comparative Literature and English and American Literature, has just published\u00a0a biography on the Kent aviator and socialite Diana Patten. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/10\/15\/comparative-literature-student-publishes-on-aviator-diana-patten\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":3245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}