Wood, James. “Phut-Phut”. London Review of Books, pp. 11-12.
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Textual Features | Jane Ellen Harrison | Harrison's memoir is light in style and content. The author skims over events in her life from her childhood to the end of her formal professional life with her retirement from Cambridge University
. However... |
Textual Features | Richmal Crompton | |
Textual Features | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on... |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Whatever the truth of that, she wrote in full consciousness of outsider status, both delight[ing] in the patriarchal anonymity of the TLS and simultaneously tilt[ing] at it. Wood, James. “Phut-Phut”. London Review of Books, pp. 11-12. 11 |
Textual Features | Beatrice Harraden | They wanted, they said, to build up and develop in the very heart of the British Empire the opportunities offered to all women students of all nations. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (29 March 1906): 8 |
Textual Features | Ethel Sidgwick | Though she calls her work a memoir, ES
spends only twenty-six pages writing about Eleanor Sidgwick's childhood, and gives much of the text to the history of Newnham, before as well as during her aunt's... |
Textual Features | Judith Kazantzis | Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743... |
Textual Features | Margaret Atwood | Negotiating with the Dead, A Writer on Writing, 2002, presents essays on the motives that make people into writers, on the trajectories of their lives, on her own experience, responses to her work, rewards... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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