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Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Publishing A. Woodfin
The English Short Title Catalogue lists only one known copy of this work in its original form (at Yale ), plus one of a Dublin edition, 1764.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Textual Production Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
This is now rare. The Beinecke Library at Yale University has a copy; the Bodleian Library copy is the first item in Sidney Tongue's composite volume, shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059, mentioned above.
Textual Production Anne Wharton
In their edition of AW , Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings expressed the opinion that further poems by her were likely to surface. This happened within less than a decade. A newly discovered manuscript of...
Reception Edith Wharton
EW 's literary career was achieved in face of the indifference or disapproval of her relations, who felt that to publish was to lose caste. In 1923 EW was awarded an Honorary DLitt by Yale University
Textual Production Rebecca West
RW 's papers are located at the McFarlin Library in the University of Tulsa and in the Beinecke Library at Yale .
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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In 1945 Marie Belloc Lowndes indignantly contradicted Hugh Walpole 's portrayal of...
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...
Publishing Eglinton Wallace
EW later said that she actually wrote this text of advice on both moral conduct and public affairs during the year 1791. Whereas the second edition, published by June, was put out by Debrett (a...
Textual Production Lady Mary Walker
Papers of LMW 's survive in the Beinecke Library at Yale .
Ewan, Elizabeth et al., editors. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Family and Intimate relationships Ethel Lilian Voynich
They married years later.
Crist, Meehan. “Who Knows?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 15, pp. 33-4.
33
They had no children; when Ethel adopted a girl she did so while they were living apart. Wilfred was an antiquarian and bibliophile, who became one of the leading collectors...
Textual Production Violet Trefusis
The manuscript is with VT 's papers at the Beinecke Library at Yale University .
Textual Production Violet Trefusis
Major holdings of VT 's papers are at the Beinecke Library at Yale University . This collection includes letters between her and Vita Sackville-West from 1940 onwards, and from Edward VII to Alice Keppel ...
Textual Production Elizabeth Tollet
Her authorship of this volume was first revealed in a note in Roger Lonsdale 's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets in 1989.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
842n116
Three copies are known to survive, at the British Library , Yale University ...
Textual Production Alice Thornton
She brought this account of her life up to her husband's death. The original of this first book is not known to be extant, but a copy made by one of her descendants survives, identified...
Family and Intimate relationships Gertrude Thimelby
Her brother Herbert was also a transcriber and collector of poetry, chiefly that of his wife, Katherine. His commonplace book is now in the Beinecke Library at Yale University .
Sanders, Julie. “The Coterie Writing of the Astons and the Thimelbys”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, pp. 47-57.
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Timeline

20 January 1672: Dorothy Calthorpe began the remarkable manuscript...

Women writers item

20 January 1672

Dorothy Calthorpe began the remarkable manuscript book of poetry and prose which was acquired by Yale University in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

1792: Yale University denied admission to a would-be...

Building item

1792

Yale University denied admission to a would-be student, Lucinda Foote , noting that she was qualified in every respect except for her sex.

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.

Texts

Berkman, Joyce Avrech. Pacifism in England, 1914-1939. Yale University, 1967, http://U of A HSS.