Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press.
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Education | Hope Mirrlees | HM
studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge
, under the charismatic scholar Jane Harrison
. Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press. 132-5 |
Travel | Hope Mirrlees | After completing her studies at Cambridge
, HM
embarked for France and Italy with her Newnham College
friend Karin Costelloe
. Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press. 135 |
Textual Production | Hope Mirrlees | Sandeep Parmar
, the first scholar to draw on the Mirrlees Archive at Newnham College, Cambridge
, published her edition of HM
's Collected Poems. Carcanet Press Poetry Publisher. http://www.carcanet.co.uk/index.shtml. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hope Mirrlees | |
Friends, Associates | Hope Mirrlees | While living in Paris, Mirrlees and Harrison entertained visitors who included HM
's mother
(widowed in 1924), and Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 298 |
Textual Production | Hope Mirrlees | HM
worked all through her later years on a biography of Jane Harrison
. She never completed it, partly from indecision as to how much of Harrison's private life to reveal. The text is now... |
Reception | Iris Murdoch | Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University
. Cambridge University
awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford |
Wealth and Poverty | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham
, Girton
, and Somerville College
s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College
and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | Aurelia Plath
attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly... |
Education | Amber Reeves | AR
then went up to Newnham College
, Cambridge, to study Moral Sciences (that is to say philosophy). She took a double first Honours BA (meaning that she took a first on both parts... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Robins | The Hogarth Press
printed, for private circulation only, ER
's Portrait of a Lady, or The English Spirit Old and New, a memoir of Elizabeth Yates Thompson
, the shy philanthropist daughter of publisher... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Robins | This volume was reprinted by Newnham
in 2002. Drabble, Margaret. “Amber Reeves (1887 - 1981)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, pp. 40-51. 50 |
Textual Features | George Bernard Shaw | Mrs Warren's daughter Vivie Warren, a classic New Woman character, is based in part on Millicent Garrett Fawcett
's daughter Phillipa
, who had recently placed first in mathematics at Newnham College
. Her mother's... |
Textual Production | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
's Mrs. Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, appeared two years after its subject's death. Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, née Balfour
(1845-1936) had been President of Newnham College
, Cambridge, from 1892 to 1910. Sidgwick, Ethel. Mrs. Henry Sidgwick. Sidgwick and Jackson. vii |
Author summary | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
wrote early twentieth-century novels of which the earlier ones are ambitious and highly literary, the later ones in general longer and more romantic in tone, set within the confines and structure of the family... |
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