Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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Education | May Sinclair | MS
visited Professor Henry Melvill Gwatkin
at Cambridge
, and was treated to a series of conversations on history, philosophy, and metaphysics which amounted to informal tutorials. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 66-7 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ali Smith | AS
met her longtime partner Sarah Wood
at Cambridge University in the 1980s Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, pp. 186-29. 196 |
Textual Production | Ali Smith | At CambridgeAS
, along with Sarah Wood
, actress Cara Seymour
, and Abigail Morris
(former artistic director of the Soho Theatre Company
), comprised a small theatre company. The plays written by Smith... |
Publishing | Zadie Smith | ZS
placed a story, The Waiter's Wife, in Granta, Cambridge University
's literary magazine and a venue for many young writers who later became widely known. She continued to publish in Granta after this. Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan. 170 Smith, Zadie. “Granta 67. Zadie Smith. The Waiter’s Wife”. Granta. |
Occupation | Mary Somerville | MS
and her husband
, at the behest of a group of Cambridge's mathematical scholars impressed with her work on Laplace
, arrived at Cambridge University
for a week-long stay. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 91 |
Reception | Mary Somerville | The review ridiculed the notion of popularizing advanced scientific works for the unwashed and criticized the publisher for believing a woman capable of such a learned enterprise. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 84 |
Friends, Associates | Freya Stark | After her long recovery, FS
continued to enjoy her popularity in London society. Sir Sydney Cockerell
, director of Cambridge
's Fitzwilliam Museum
, became a friend. She was introduced to Virginia Woolf
, Rose Macaulay |
Occupation | Gertrude Stein | GS
delivered lectures at Cambridge
and Oxford
Universities; these were later published by the Hogarth Press
. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 115-18 |
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 |
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 |
Occupation | Anne Stevenson | During her adolescence music was even more important to AS
than literature. She became a part-time cello teacher in England, and she played in a string orchestra affiliated with Cambridge University
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 9: 468 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Strachey | Another aunt, Pernel Strachey
, was Principal of Newnham College
(one of Cambridge
's two colleges for women) from 1923 to 1941. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File. 278 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ray Strachey | RS
's sister, Karin
, was one of the first Freudian psychoanalysts. Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books. 13 Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books. 264 Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books. 270 |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | Despite his lack of scholastic success WMT
was popular socially, and his wide circle of friends at Cambridge included Alfred Tennyson
, Edward FitzGerald
, and John Allen
. His brief time at university
also... |
Textual Production | Melesina Trench | MT
sent a copy of this work (now very rare, like everything she published during her lifetime) to her friend Mary Leadbeater
. Leadbeater, Mary, and Mary Cunningham. The Annals of Ballitore, 1766-1824. Editor McKenna, John, Stephen Scroop. 102-3 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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