Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | Oliver Strachey
, like a number of Strachey men, worked with the East India Company
. His second wife was Rachel (Ray) Costelloe
, Newnham College
graduate, women's rights activist, and author, best known for... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's mother, born Daisy Duncan
but later called Margaret by her husband, was lovely, but completely uninterested in her own looks. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 11-12 |
Family and Intimate relationships | A. S. Byatt | ASB
's mother, Kathleen Marie (Bloor) Drabble
, was a schoolteacher and a graduate of Newnham College
, Cambridge. Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. A.S. Byatt. Twayne. 1 Myer, Valerie Grosvenor. Margaret Drabble: A Reader’s Guide. St Martin’s Press. 15 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Ormston Ford | Emily, born five years ahead of Isabella in 1850, attended the Slade School of Art
in the late 1870s and became a painter well-known in the Leeds community. Like IOF
, she also became a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Arthur Hugh Clough | He had two brothers. He helped direct the education at home of his younger sister, Anne Jemima Clough
, who became a major force in education for women and the poor, and was the first... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | Frances's mother, Ellen Darwin
, a great-niece of the poet Wordsworth
, was a Fellow and lecturer in English literature at Newnham College
. Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber. 192 Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxvii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Ellen Harrison | Classics lecturer JEH
met her student and later close companion, Hope Mirrlees
, at Newnham College
, Cambridge
. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 235 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Distinguished guests at Newnham
at this time included Ruskin
and Turgenev
; JEH
recalls giving them tours of the college in her Reminiscences of a Student's Life. Harrison, Jane Ellen. Reminiscences of a Student’s Life. Hogarth Press. 44 |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Another classics student, Jessie (Crum) Stewart
, travelled with Harrison to meet Wilhelm Dörpfield
in Greece in 1901, and maintained a friendship with her mentor after leaving Newnham
which lasted until Harrison's death. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 133-6 Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press. 131-2 |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | While at Newnham College
, EFB
began her acquaintance with Charlotte Mary Martin
, later Charlotte Wilson
, a forceful young bluestocking with a similar growing dissatisfaction about the political beliefs that she was exposed... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | However, JEH
's most famous and explicit reappearance is in Virginia Woolf
's A Room of One's Own, a text which evolved from a series of lectures that Woolf—Harrison's friend, admirer, and publisher—gave at... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
's next biography, Portrait of an Actor, 1933, took as its subject the Shakespearean actor Edward Alleyn
(in whom her interest had been aroused while she was at Cambridge
by the teaching of... |
Leisure and Society | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was painted several times. The National Portrait Gallery
has a portrait of her and her husband by Ford Madox Brown
, commissioned by family friend and politician Sir Charles Dilke
and painted in 1874... |
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