Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol.
6
, pp. 39-40. 39
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Education | Selima Hill | SH
received her BA in English from Cambridge University
, after a course interrupted by illness, which therefore took longer than the norm. Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol. 6 , pp. 39-40. 39 British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Textual Production | Susan Hill | SH
built a novel, The Man in the Picture. A Ghost Story, around a picture of carnival revellers in Venice, familiar to her protagonist from its position hanging in the rooms of his... |
Wealth and Poverty | Georgette Heyer | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgette Heyer | He was educated at private schools and at Cambridge University
. In the twenty-first century he gave his mother's biographer Lidija Haas
free access to her papers. Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head. 35, 10 Dixon, Jay. An Appreciation of Georgette Heyer. http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander%20files/dixon.htm. Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol. 34 , No. 16, pp. 29-30. 29 |
Occupation | Jane Ellen Harrison | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
began a close academic and personal relationship with Cambridge
classical scholar R. A. Neil
. Her later companion Hope Mirrlees
suggested that at the time of Neil's death in 1901 these two were engaged. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 126-7, 141-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Ellen Harrison | Classics lecturer JEH
met her student and later close companion, Hope Mirrlees
, at Newnham College
, Cambridge
. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 235 |
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 |
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 |
Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Ellen Harrison | Another of JEH
's associates during this period was Roman studies scholar Eugénie Sellers
. Both women had been students at Cambridge
(though not quite simultaneously) and both appeared in 1883 in a London production... |
Reception | Jane Ellen Harrison | But this publication brought JEH
much positive recognition as well. Shortly after its appearance, for instance, came the invitation, never before extended to a woman, to speak in the precincts of Cambridge University
(in this... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | Harrison was always engaged in debates with her colleagues at Cambridge
and elsewhere: her writing here was inspired in part by Gilbert Murray
's unorthodox translation of Euripides
' Hippolytus, published in 1902. Both... |
Reception | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
received some praise for her vivid writing, but was attacked for what critics saw as her comparative ignorance of philology and etymology and weakness in her evidence. In what her biographer Annabel Robinson
identifies... |
Textual Features | Jane Ellen Harrison | Harrison's memoir is light in style and content. The author skims over events in her life from her childhood to the end of her formal professional life with her retirement from Cambridge University
. However... |
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