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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...
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.
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Employer Adrienne Rich
AR was A. D. White Professor-At-Large at Cornell University .
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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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
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 .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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.
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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...
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...

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