Princeton University

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Employer Hannah Arendt
In 1959 HA became the first woman to be appointed to a full-time faculty position at Princeton .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
She had already in 1952 won a Guggenheim Fellowship and been the first woman ever invited by...
Textual Production Sylvia Beach
Not long before her death SB composed a brief memoir of her internment by the Germans at Vittel during the second world war, for a radio programme to be shared with her fellow-internee the painter...
Textual Production Sarah Harriet Burney
Independent scholar Sheila Graham-Smith has recently suggested that SHB may be the author of a manuscript novella in the possession of Princeton University entitled Julia. A Tale in Ten Chapters. She bases her argument...
Employer Anne Carson
AC has taught at universities across North America. She is currently, in 2015, teaching at Bard College in New York State. She began her teaching career at the University of Calgary , and has also...
Leisure and Society Maria Edgeworth
John Downman painted an attractive half-length portrait of her in watercolour and pencil (now at Princeton University ) in 1807. After it changed hands at the Peyraud sale in 2009, a reproduction of it was...
Textual Production George Egerton
GE 's letters and papers are held at the National Library of Ireland , at Boston University 's Mugar Memorial Library in the Terence de Vere White Collection, and at Princeton University .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production T. S. Eliot
In the same year he received the Order of Merit, and a Fellowship at Princeton 's Institute for Advanced Study .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Violet Fane
A large selection of VF 's personal papers are held at the University of Reading . The collection includes letters, diaries, sketchbooks, as well as manuscript copies of her works.
“Papers of Mary Montgomerie Currie (Violet Fane)”. University of Reading: Library: Special Collections: Authors’ Papers.
Her letters to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Reception Mary Gawthorpe
She left these papers to her nephew Sidney John Ward (her sister Annie's son), and his daughters donated them to Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives in New York City. Other papers...
Textual Production Dora Greenwell
During her youth DG maintained a notebook that she informally titled Stray Leaves. According to her biographer, William Dorling , this journal contains her thoughts on events and literature, as well as some of...
Friends, Associates Jean Ingelow
Thirteen of the letters they exchanged are held in the Firestone Library at Princeton . Their relationship was somewhat unusual, as U. C. Knoepflmacher notes. Ruskin at one time counted Ingelow among his eleven closest...
Textual Production Elizabeth Isham
Before her sister, Judith, died, EI confided to her a half-formed intention: I tolde my Sister it may be I will writ somwhat to leave my mind to my friends when I die to give...
Travel Storm Jameson
They were back in the United States from September to December 1957, when Chapman accepted a position at Princeton 's Institute for Advanced Studies. In later years they travelled to Italy, Greece, and...
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
After her American success of Frozen, BL planned an adaptation of Dracula to premiere at Princeton University in June 2004, and Discontented Winter: House Remix as a youth play for the National Theatre in...
Textual Production Dora Marsden
Formerly stored in a wicker trunk at the home of her niece Elaine Dyson Bate, DM 's papers are now at Princeton University . Her collection contains manuscripts, papers, and letters to and from Rebecca West

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.

6 November 1919: Published observations of a solar eclipse,...

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6 November 1919

Published observations of a solar eclipse, made in Brazil and West Africa by two sets of British astronomers, confirmed Albert Einstein 's theory of relativity.

By late 1996: Helen Fielding hit the best-selling jackpot...

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By late 1996

Helen Fielding hit the best-selling jackpot when her novelBridget Jones's Diary (originally a newspaper column begun the previous year) was published as a book.

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