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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 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 |
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... |
Textual Features | Amy Levy | Her eponymous Leonard Leuniger is a male Jewish undergraduate at Cambridge
, a budding writer. He makes upper-class friends at university whose antisemitism only gradually reveals itself, cruelly frustrating his efforts to win their approval... |
Textual Features | Helen Oyeyemi | This is HO
's haunted house novel; she reports having been inspired by Shirley Jackson
's The Haunting of Hill House. Harrison, Niall. “Throwing Voices And Observing Transformations: An Interview With Helen Oyeyemi”. Strange Horizons. |
Textual Features | Eva Mary Bell | The title of this novel comes from the biblical Book of Proverbs: a servant when he reigneth is one of three things for which, it says, the earth is disquieted. Examples of such disquiet... |
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 |
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. 265 |
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 |
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