Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM
to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College
(through Caroline B. Dow |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edna St Vincent Millay | At Vassar
, where cross-dressing and same-sex relationships were the norm, she skilfully played off two suitors against each other in her first year, and in her second formed a pair with Elaine Ralli
... |
Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | After her semester at Barnard College
, ESVM
entered Vassar
in fall 1913 (despite failing the entrance exams in algebra and history, though she passed geometry) to study literature and languages. She was a rebel... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edna St Vincent Millay | Though he identified as Dutch, his mother was Irish and his father's family originally French. Millay deeply admired his first wife, Inez Milholland
(a Vassar
graduate, a lawyer, and a socialist, who died in 1916... |
Education | Iris Murdoch | At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University
and a place at Vassar
in New York State, as... |
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 |
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