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Wealth and Poverty | George Eliot | GE
spent £5,000 establishing, with the help of Henry Sidgwick
and Michael Foster
, a three-year studentship in physiology at Cambridge
in memory of Lewes
, open equally to men and women. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 367 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 522 |
Wealth and Poverty | Georgette Heyer | |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Macaulay | This was the first full-length critical work on Forster. It expressed admiration for his writing, but some amusement or impatience over what it presents as his obsession with Englishness and with the all-male educational world... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Virginia Woolf | This work is not so much a diary as a working notebook: its seven sketches take events or issues from VW
' life as grist to (in Doris Lessing
's words) five-finger exercises for future... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | Many of her essays dealt with women's issues and many were topical. University Degrees for Women (2 June 1877) and University Examinations for Women (2 and 9 February 1878) responded respectively to Parliament
's refusal... |
Textual Production | E. M. Forster | EMF
published his best-known work of literary criticism, Aspects of the Novel, based on the Clark Lectures which he had delivered at Cambridge
. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon. 39 |
Textual Production | T. S. Eliot | TSE
's The Idea of a Christian Society incorporated the text of three papers delivered at Cambridge University
in March. Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace. 67 |
Textual Production | Katherine Parr | KP
wrote a letter to the Fellows of Cambridge University
, urging them to use our vulgar tonge. Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill. 206 |
Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | Edith Sitwell
had hosted a tea for GS
when she came to lecture at Cambridge
and Oxford
earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press. 184 |
Textual Production | Germaine Greer | In 2013 GG
sold her archives (student notes and essays, scripts for the CambridgeFootlights Society
, literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, a handmade book designed for her friend Gay Clifford
, and professional and... |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Production | Ann Jebb | The reform that would introduce annual exams at Cambridge University
was already AJ
's subject as well as her husband's: she had addressed it in the Whitehall Evening Post. The pamphlet generally ascribed to... |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Production | Anita Brookner | This originated as a series of lectures for the Courtauld Institute
, developed into six of AB
's Slade Lectures at Cambridge
, and thence into a monograph. The title came from McNay, Michael. “Anita Brookner obituary”. theguardian.com. |