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Textual Production Melesina Trench
MT was an inveterate letter-writer. Early in her married life she wrote a letter criticising the behaviour of some fashionable ladies, and delivered it on a visit for them to read.
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn.
13ff
Some of her...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth von Arnim
At Nassenheide, her home in Germany, EA employed the first of a series of Cambridge tutors for her children, who famously included future writers E. M. Forster and Hugh Walpole .
Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head.
96, 102, 120
Education Elizabeth von Arnim
May was a strong student. In the Senior Certificate public examination in July 1883 she emerged top in history among pupils at all Ealing schools, and she particularly impressed her examiners with an essay about...
Family and Intimate relationships Rosamund Marriott Watson
He had attended Cambridge , where he rowed for the University. The first years of their union seem to have been happy.
Hughes, Linda K. “’Fair <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Hymen</span> holdeth hid a world of woes’: Myth and Marriage in Poems by ’Graham R. Tomson’ (Rosamund Marriott Watson)”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
32
, No. 2, pp. 97-120.
97
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press.
746
Education Mary Webb
Mary Meredith (later MW ) attended Cambridge University extension lectures on literature and history, until ill health intervened.
Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth.
74-5
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 Eudora Welty
EW , who is so often identified with her Mississippian home and subject-matter, made some biting comments in a lecture given at Cambridge University on the use of the term regional writer.
Crapo, Trish. “Other Orders of Intimacy”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xxiii
, No. 1, pp. 9-10.
9-10
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 Production Virginia Woolf
The article formed the basis
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
168
of a paper titled Character in Fiction that VW read to the Heretics Society in Cambridge on 18 May 1924. The paper was published, as Character in Fiction...
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...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
Thoby Stephen , VW 's brother, started Thursday Evenings at 46 Gordon Square, mainly so that he could keep in touch with his Cambridge University friends. These gatherings marked the beginning of what came...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
While woolgathering for her upcoming Women and Fiction lectures at Cambridge , VW met with Jane Ellen Harrison for the last time; in her diary she described her as very aged & rather exalted.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
3: 175-6
Occupation Virginia Woolf
Increasingly in demand as a public speaker, VW lectured at the London School of Economics. Her talk to the CambridgeHeretics Society the following May grew into her essay Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
471
politics Virginia Woolf
VW refused to deliver the Clark lecture series at Cambridge University , thereby also declining to succeed her father, scholar Leslie Stephen , in this honour.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
2: 172
Publishing Virginia Woolf
VW published Women and Fiction (from her two lectures given at the women's colleges at Cambridge ) in Forum (New York).
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
368

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