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Residence | Vera Brittain | |
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 | |
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... |
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