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Vassar College
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Textual Production | Mary McCarthy | MMC
published through Harcourt, Brace and World
the novel that became her best-known work, The Group, about eight young female friends recently graduated from Vassar College
. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
left about 3,800 pages in her handwriting contained in 118 boxes, which went to the library at Vassar College
: drafts of poems (some of them entirely crossed out) and fragments of poems. Alice Quinn |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Textual Features | Edna St Vincent Millay | This volume includes her poems of mourning for her Vassar
friend who died in the flu epidemic of 1918-19. American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
Reception | Mary McCarthy | Vassar College
holds MMC
's archive of papers. Scholarly interest in her was strong during the 1960s, resulting in at least three monographs and a bibliography by Sherli Goldman
, 1968. More recent are a... |
Reception | Edna St Vincent Millay | Renaissance (as it had been spelled before publication) did not win the five-hundred-dollar prize for the best poem of all; nor did it come second or third. But it received critical acclaim, and the judges'... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
began writing poetry at the age of eight, mixing her own contributions with poems she learned by heart. The first money she earned by writing came at age twelve: a five-dollar gold piece for... |
Performance of text | Edna St Vincent Millay | ESVM
published her play The Princess Marries the Page (in which she had played the lead both at Vassar
as an undergraduate and as a professional with the Provincetown Players
). Yost, Karl, and Harold Lewis Cook. A Bibliography of the Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Harper. 133-134 Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 137, 175 |
Occupation | Gertrude Stein | On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 158-9 |
Occupation | Edna St Vincent Millay | ESVM
now cast around for work, possibly on stage. She sent out poems to magazines, often fruitlessly. She earned a little by acting with the Provincetown Players
from December 1917, building on her long experience... |
Occupation | Agnes Mary Clerke | AMC
's passion for astronomy led to her success and recognition in the field of this predominantly masculine science. Though she was never officially employed as an astronomer, she declined an offer to work for... |
Occupation | Mary Lavin | At home she lectured to the English Society at University College
, Dublin, providing, from the point of view of budding writers, an invaluable supplement to the degree course in English Literature. Kilroy, Thomas et al. “Foreword”. In a Café, Town House, p. vii - x. vii |
Occupation | Denise Levertov | DL
held various academic teaching appointments, beginning in 1965 at the City University of New York
and at Drew University
in New Jersey. In 1966-7 she taught at Vassar
. During the 1970s she... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary McCarthy | When MMC
first started writing, she focused her efforts on critical reviews and essays. While still at Vassar
she started a rebel literary magazine, Con Spirito, with two of her classmates, Frani Blough
and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Edna St Vincent Millay |
Timeline
1836: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount...
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1836
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
(later Mount Holyoke College) was founded at South Hadley, Maryland, by Mary Lyon
: the first post-secondary educational institution for women in the USA.
1865: Maria Mitchell became the first woman to...
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1865
Maria Mitchell
became the first woman to be appointed as a professor of astronomy, at Vassar College.
By late 1963: The best-known novel by US author Mary McCarthy,...
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By late 1963
The best-known novel by US author Mary McCarthy
, The Group, appeared in Britain. It traces the later lives of a number of graduates of Vassar
, then an all-women's college.
12 February 1980: US poet Muriel Rukeyser died in Greenwich...
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12 February 1980
US poet Muriel Rukeyser
died in Greenwich Village, New York, two years after publishing her Collected Poems and four years after her last new collection, The Gates, 1976.
16 October 2012: The American Library in Paris held a ceremony...
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16 October 2012
The American Library in Paris
held a ceremony with speeches and an exhibition to commemorate the writer Mary McCarthy
, who died in 1989 but whose one hundredth birthday fell this year. Her alma mater,...
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