Cornell University

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Residence Vera Brittain
VB went with her husband to live in Ithaca, New York, while he taught at Cornell .
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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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...
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...
Reception Pearl S. Buck
While a graduate student at Cornell she made a deliberate bid at the lucrative ($250) Messenger Memorial Prize for the essay showing the best research and thinking on the field of human progress or the...
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
Mary Russell Mitford commented on this letter. Holford's modern biographer knew of no surviving copy of this work; OCLC lists only a single copy, at Cornell University .
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
70
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Violet Hunt
VH 's literary executor was Gerald Henderson , librarian of St Paul's Cathedral . (He was not her first choice: she had approached Dorothy Richardson and Ethel Colburn Mayne .) In 1962, following Henderson's death,...
Education Elspeth Huxley
EH sailed from England for New York, en route for her year at Cornell University.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
84
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
In a third book of memoirs, Love Among the Daughters, EH wrote of her studies at Reading University and Cornell in the 1920s.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
374
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Elspeth Huxley
At ReadingEH had an impromptu sexual encounter (though much afraid, as all her contemporaries were, of unwanted pregnancy) with a man she did not love but who had experience and clever hands.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
83
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Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
As an undergraduate at Reading University , already a seasoned professional journalist, EH tried to supplement her meagre finances by producing short stories and reportage, but they did not sell. She continued to write unpaid...
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
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.
Textual Production Fanny Aikin Kortright
She had started putting my poems in shape for this volume some years earlier, while working in Bradford at her very first job as a governess. In later positions she continued to work at her...

Timeline

4 May 1975: Feminists working in Cornell University's...

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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.

August 1975: Enid Nemy's New York Times story entitled...

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August 1975

Enid Nemy 's New York Times story entitled Women Begin to Speak Out Against Sexual Harassment at Work was syndicated across the USA, popularizing and legitimating the term coined three months before by Cornell

19 February 2007: Sarah Thomas, an American, made history when...

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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).

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