Columbia University

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Performance of text W. H. Auden
Benjamin Britten 's opera Paul Bunyan, with libretto by WHA , had its first performance, at Columbia University , New York.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. University Press of Virginia.
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Reception Rosa Nouchette Carey
The British Library holds RNC 's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley and Macmillan , while Columbia University , New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Employer Hélène Cixous
HC became professor of English Literature at the new university. The university soon distinguished itself by attracting an extremely high-quality faculty, though the French government never particularly appreciated its existence. HC founded the Centre des Recherches en Etudes Féminines
Anthologization Ann Batten Cristall
Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld and her brother , Ann Jebb , the future Amelia Opie , Anna Maria Porter , Mary Wollstonecraft and her sister, Mary Hays and her sister, a Mrs Spence who...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
Columbia University holds a five-and-a-half-page manuscript of undated, unpublished reminiscences by EDA .
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. “Ella D’Arcy Reminisces”. English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920, Vol.
37
, No. 1, pp. 28-32.
28, 30
Reception Amelia B. Edwards
ABE was awarded two honorary degrees by US institutions: Smith College (a women's institution) gave her in 1886 an Honorary LL.D (the first distinction of the kind ever bestowed on a woman), and...
Education Nawal El Saadawi
The earliest dream of NES was to be a dancer, but studying music needed a piano, which was too expensive. She therefore turned, she said, to books and reading. She did not want to be...
Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
In 1930 she was awarded an annual...
Friends, Associates Zora Neale Hurston
While in New York, ZNH made numerous significant connections, including those with author Fannie Hurst , who employed her as a secretary, and Annie Nathan Meyer , a trustee of Barnard College (the women's college...
Occupation Elizabeth Jennings
EJ went to Columbia University , New York, to a temporary post as lecturer.
“Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library.
Occupation Elizabeth Jennings
EJ took up the role for this year of Guildersleeve Lecturer at Barnard College , then the women's college of Columbia University , New York; this was her second spell at Columbia.
“Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library.
Textual Production Fanny Kemble
FK 's papers are at the New York Public Library , the Harvard College Library, Butler Library at Columbia University , Boston Public Library , the British Library , and the Victoria and Albert Museum .
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research.
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Publishing Fanny Aikin Kortright
This book sprang from her conviction that the campaign for women's suffrage was damaging their status by compromising their real dignity.
Kortright, Fanny Aikin. The Recollections of My Long Life. Printed for the author by Farmer and Sons.
Once the book was printed she sent it out to leading politicians and...
Employer Julia Kristeva
She worked with Sollers on Tel Quel (an avant-garde little magazine which became notorious for its support for Maoism), whose editorial board she joined in 1971. In New York, in 1976, she became a Permanent...
Education Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber (later Le Guin) followed her BA with an MA from Columbia University , New York, and headed to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship to work on a PhD on the French poet...

Timeline

1836: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount...

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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.

11 July 1919: University women from Britain, the USA, and...

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11 July 1919

University women from Britain, the USA, and Canada met in London to plan the founding of the International Federation of University Women, which held an inaugural conference at Bedford College , London, in 1920.

23 October 1920: In his novel Main Street, Sinclair Lewis...

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23 October 1920

In his novelMain Street, Sinclair Lewis excoriated the small-town life often represented in American literature as the backbone of national life.

December 1990: Bibliographer G. Thomas Tanselle spoke out...

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December 1990

Bibliographer G. Thomas Tanselle spoke out at Columbia University about what he termed the microfilming epidemic, with attendant destruction of texts once microfilmed.

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