Columbia University

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...

MMG read from it during At the Edges of Europe: A Festival of Contemporary Greek and Irish Women's Poetry, which was held jointly in the year of its publication by the Poetry Society of America

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...

EJ went to Columbia University , New York, to a temporary post as lecturer.

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.

In New York Rich began to teach: she had a graduate poetry course at Columbia University and taught with the SEEK literacy program at the City College (where her husband also taught).

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...

Benjamin Britten 's opera Paul Bunyan, with libretto by WHA , had its first performance, at Columbia University , New York.

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...

CMC 's earliest story to reach print, Wunderkind, appeared in Story, a magazine edited by Whit Burnett , with whom she had been studying at Columbia .

Her biographer, Panthea Reid , calls TOzanier than most literary geniuses: She was undisciplined, high strung, full of excuses, and passionate. She was at least intermittently serious about her literary aims: in early...

This book sprang from her conviction that the campaign for women's suffrage was damaging their status by compromising their real dignity. Once the book was printed she sent it out to leading politicians and...

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 .

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...

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...