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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Other Life Event | Charlotte Yonge | A subscription was raised at Winchester School to found a scholarship in honour of CY
, to take boys from the school on to Oxford
or Cambridge
. Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House. viii Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | Increasingly in demand as a public speaker, VW
lectured at the 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 | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Leslie Stephen
's daughter from his previous marriage, Laura
(1868-1934), suffered from some form of mental disability and lived most of her life in institutions. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 74 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Piecing together its intellectual family tree, scholars and critics have looked both forward and back from Bloomsbury. It has been seen as descending from the late eighteenth-century Clapham Sect
(to which VW
's great-grandfather James Stephen |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf was a close Cambridge
friend of Virginia's brother Thoby Stephen
and a member of the Apostles
. A Jew, with family roots in London and Amsterdam, he grew up in London, first... |
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... |
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 Production | Virginia Woolf | The article formed the basis Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File. 168 |
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 |
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 |