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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
While in...
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...
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
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...
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'...
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.
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 .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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
In 1921 ESVM was commissioned to write a play for the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Vassar . It was performed outdoors with a large cast.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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