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Reception | Q. D. Leavis | However, an early and strongly condemnatory review appeared from F. L. Lucas
of King's College
. Lucas argued that QDL
's élitist, ineffective scholarship idealized both pre-industrial literacy and contemporary highbrow culture. To inform one's... |
Reception | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
received some praise for her vivid writing, but was attacked for what critics saw as her comparative ignorance of philology and etymology and weakness in her evidence. In what her biographer Annabel Robinson
identifies... |
Reception | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
has remained little known in literary history, and in the history of exploration she has been displaced in public consciousness by her husband's second wife. However, this situation has begun to change. On 16... |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | After the Femina Vie Heureuse prize for To the Lighthouse, VW
refused in principle to accept any honour from an institution. She declined to give the Clark Lectures at Cambridge University
, as well... |
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 |
Reception | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's many honours during her lifetime included the Sonning Prize for European Culture in 1983, and an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University
. There is a Simone de Beauvoir Institute
at Concordia University
in... |
Reception | Rose Macaulay | RM
received an Honorary DLitt from Cambridge University
; the award was a major event in the last decade of her life. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 308-9 Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne. chronology |
Residence | Jane Ellen Harrison | After leaving Cambridge
permanently, scholar JEH
settled in Paris with Hope Mirrlees
, who had by now become known as a poet. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 287-8 |
Residence | Q. D. Leavis | Both Cambridge University
and the city of Cambridge remained her primary home for the rest of her life. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 85-6 |
Residence | Ann Jebb | A year after John Jebb
's resignation from his Cambridge
position, he and AJ
moved to settle in Craven Street, London. Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, pp. 1: 1 - 227. 122 |
Residence | Anne Stevenson | AS
and her husband Mark Elvin
sailed from the USA for England, where he was to take a job at Cambridge University
and she was to devote herself to fulltime writing. Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research. 9: 283 |
Residence | Frances Burney | FB
and her husband
returned to France, leaving their son at Cambridge University
(where he had opted to remain) and intending to settle. Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon. 355 |
Residence | Jane Ellen Harrison | Though still attached to Newnham College
, Cambridge
, JEH
settled for some time in Paris with her former student Hope Mirrlees
. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 265 |
Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This novel is set in the political climate which followed the recent Reform Bill, and in the fashionable area of the Faubourg St Germain in Paris, which its author knew at first hand, as well... |
Textual Features | Julia Frankau | Stephen Lock
suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF
's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart |
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