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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
Donald Crofton, one of the comparatively few male protagonists in RC 's oeuvre, returns home at the beginning of the novel, from university life at Cambridge to a long summer with his close-knit family. His...
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
She used the conventional one for I...
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
Apparently they were thinking...
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.
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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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26 January 2009: Cambridge University announced that Anne...

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26 January 2009

Cambridge University announced that Anne Jarvis , former Sub-Librarian, had been appointed its first woman University Librarian .

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