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.
Princeton University
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Employer | Hannah Arendt | |
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. |
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...
Building item
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,...
Building item
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...
Women writers item
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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