Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Cornell University
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Laura Riding | Her will named a Board of Literary Management, including James Tyler
, librarian at Cornell
, which was to oversee the publication of her previously unpublished works, and to dissolve itself at the end of... |
Education | Toni Morrison | Chloe Wofford (later TM
) followed her BA with an MA in English Literature from Cornell University
, with a thesis on suicide in Virginia Woolf
and William Faulkner
. Innes, Lyn. “Toni Morrison Obituary”. theguardian.com. |
Education | Pearl S. Buck | At the same time and at the same institution, Cornell University
, 1924-5, PSB
worked for an MA. The award of the Messenger Prize for an essay while she was a student at Cornell (under... |
Education | Laura Riding | Laura Reichenthal (later LR
) was educated at Cornell University
, where there was then only one female faculty member outside the Department of Home Economics, and where she held three scholarships. She went on... |
Education | Elspeth Huxley | EH
sailed from England for New York, en route for her year at Cornell University. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002. 84 |
Education | Elspeth Huxley | Its attraction for her (although her ambition had been to go to Cambridge) was that it offered a course in agriculture that did not demand Latin for entrance. She was one of only two women... |
Employer | Pamela Hansford Johnson | While her husband was at Berkeley
, PHJ
lectured to girls at Mills College
. She held appointments at Yale
, Haverford College
, Pennsylvania, Cornell University
, the University of Kansas
, Wesleyan University |
Employer | Adrienne Rich | AR
was A. D. White
Professor-At-Large at Cornell University
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981. 74: 338 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | Catlin
(not to be confused with the nineteenth-century US painter George Catlin) was the only child of a Congregational minister and his pro-suffragette wife, whose feminist beliefs combined with her husband's growing hostility eventually ended... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | After Brittain returned to London, Catlin continued teaching at Cornell
, and together they pursued their semi-detached marriage: she lived in London, sharing her household with Winifred Holtby
, while he spent four and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elspeth Huxley | |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | Q. D.
and F. R. Leavis
travelled to America, where they lectured at Cornell
and Harvard
. Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth, 1995. 127 |
Occupation | Anne Sexton | In 1961 AS
began to get invitations to read or discuss her poetry: at Harvard
, Boston College
, and Cornell
. In the fall of 1961, she was appointed one of the first Radcliffe... |
Publishing | Frances Mary Peard | The Bodleian Library
's copy of The Locked Desk has a blue cloth cover (with touches of red) showing two young people at sea in a rowing boat. The cover of a US edition pictured... |
Reception | Mary Kingsley | In 1998 an international team of biologists organized by Cornell University
conducted a survey of the freshwater fish biodiversity of the Ogooué River basin of Gabon in commemoration of Kingsley's voyages and publications. “The Biodiversity of Freshwater Fish in Gabon Rainforests, One Hundred Years After Mary H. Kingsley”. Cornell University: Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: Hopkins Lab. |
Timeline
4 May 1975
Feminists working in Cornell University
's Human Affairs programme staged a public speak-out on discrimination against women in the workplace; they coined the term sexual harassment to describe objectionable actions ranging from inappropriate to violent.
19 February 2007
Sarah Thomas
, an American, made history when she became the first woman and the first non-British person appointed Bodley's Librarian: head librarian at Oxford University
's Bodleian Library
(opened on 8 November 1602).