Vassar College

Her relations with her mother (born Gertrude Bulmer or Boomer) were not happy. Gertrude sometimes hit her, or forgot all about her, or screamed loud and long enough to be heard at a distance. She...

EB loved the village school in Great Village, Nova Scotia, where she learned to read and write. She later, supported by a Bishop family trust, attended first a summer camp, then a private school...

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...

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

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...

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. While in...

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...

The year she graduated from Vassar , MMC married the actor, director and playwright Harold Johnsrud . She later realized that she had done the wrong thing. To marry a man without loving him...

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 .

A year later, in 1926 MMC enrolled at Annie Wright Episcopal Boarding School in Tacoma. She would travel home to Seattle some weekends by boat or on the Interurban streetcar. Further elaborating on different...

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...

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...

In the year of her graduation from Vassar , ESVM published Renascence, and Other Poems.

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 ).

Their youngest sister, Kathleen , was enabled by Vincent's success to follow in her footsteps to Vassar , where however she felt out of place. She found it harder than Norma did to live with...