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Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY 's surviving letters are mostly at the British Library , Harvard University , and Princeton University .
Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY found it easy to compose at speed: the story goes that she would work on three new pieces simultaneously: a page of one, a page of the second, a page of the third, in...
Reception Marina Warner
Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...
Family and Intimate relationships Linda Villari
LV 's mother was born Mary Lind in Jamaica in 1816.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
. She married LV 's father on 27 February 1833 at St Matthew, Friday Street, in London.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
In her autobiographical novel When I...
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.
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At Columbia University she had been expected to give four lectures to audiences of approximately two hundred each. However...
Publishing Eleanor Sleath
This book was written during a highly social period of ES 's life, and advertised in February 1799.
Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
The majority of DR 's papers are held by Yale University 's Beinecke Library . Smaller collections are housed at the British Library , the New York Public Library , the University of Texas at Austin
Employer Ruth Padel
RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds.
Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm.
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Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...
Employer Toni Morrison
TM was named the Robert F. Goheen Professor of the Humanities at Princeton , becoming the first black woman to hold a chair in an Ivy League University.
Kitwana, Bakari. “1978 Awardees: Toni Morrison”. Cleveland Arts Prize.
Employer Toni Morrison
She maintained her academic identity with short-term appointments at the State University of New York and then Princeton . She says: There were certain things I could do with ease. Teach. And read books. And...
Textual Production Toni Morrison
She consigned her papers—manuscripts, lyrics, a play, diaries, photographs, early proofs of books, lectures and correspondence— to Princeton University .
Holcomb-Holland, Lori. “Toni Morrison Papers Will Go To Princeton”. The New York Times.
Textual Production Elizabeth Montagu
EM 's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory , Eliza Berkeley , Mary Delany , Ann Donellan , and Hester Thrale , besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and...
Textual Production Anne Marsh
Princeton University Library holds the bound manuscripts of three unpublished novels by AM , bearing her corrections and revisions: The Two Simpletons, The Two Pearls: Greta and Kret, and Euryone: the Story of...
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
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...

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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