Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth.
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Education | Mary Webb | Mary Meredith (later MW
) attended Cambridge University
extension lectures on literature and history, until ill health intervened. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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