Columbia University

Although FS is not widely known today, some of her books have been reprinted in the last twenty years. A selection of her work is available online from the Victorian Women Writers Project . The...

Before coming to America they had sold or given away the Greenleaf Theatre costumes and props, intending to work at painting and writing until they had saved enough to engage in community drama. In America...

After this year in Europe , they found an apartment in uptown Manhattan, at 403 West 115th Street, Morningside Heights, close to Columbia University . A year later they moved to another apartment, near...

On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York. At Columbia University she had been expected to give four lectures to audiences of approximately two hundred each. However...

The work was commissioned by the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University and performed there on 7 May 1947.The Mother of Us All was reprinted in the posthumous collection Last Operas and...

Columbia University , New York, holds correspondence by her in its collection of the papers of Hodder and Stoughton .

JS finally married Adolf Kurt Placzek , by then a librarian at Columbia University in New York, her lover of nearly a decade, whom she had met during his refugee days in England.

Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen , Edinburgh University , and Columbia University , New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers...

AJV 's father, John Vardill , was born in the American colonies in 1749 and educated at King's College , New York (the forerunner of Columbia University). In 1773 he became Professor of Natural Law...

HW sailed on SS Berengaria to New York to accept in person the award of an honorary DLitt. from Columbia University on 3 June.

HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...

STW wrote an opera libretto about the last days of Percy Shelley , The Sea Change, for musician Paul Nordoff , who had been commissioned by Columbia University to write an opera.

After this she attended the University of Wisconsin , majoring in English Literature and studying under Ricardo Quintana . She obtained a bachelor of arts degree in 1929. Next, with encouragement from her father...

EW 's time in New York City was educational not only academically but also in broadening her cultural horizons. As a middle-class white in America's Deep South she had grown up among people whose outlook...

EW returned home to Jackson, Mississippi, immediately following her last spring term at Columbia . Her father , only fifty-two, had terminal cancer. He was diagnosed with leukemia—at that date, 1931, mostly unknown and...