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Wealth and Poverty | Georgette Heyer | |
Wealth and Poverty | George Eliot | GE
spent £5,000 establishing, with the help of Henry Sidgwick
and Michael Foster
, a three-year studentship in physiology at Cambridge
in memory of Lewes
, open equally to men and women. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 367 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 522 |
Travel | Hope Mirrlees | After completing her studies at Cambridge
, HM
embarked for France and Italy with her Newnham College
friend Karin Costelloe
. Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press. 135 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Macaulay | This was the first full-length critical work on Forster. It expressed admiration for his writing, but some amusement or impatience over what it presents as his obsession with Englishness and with the all-male educational world... |
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 Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | This character (considerably altered in transplanting) was not the novel's only ingredient from life. Its central episode was suggested by the trial for manslaughter of an actual Cambridge
undergraduate who had killed two elderly women... |
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 | Iris Murdoch | IM
published her novel An Accidental Man, which features both political and personal moral dilemmas, and is dedicated to her Cambridge
philosopher friend Kreisel
. Fletcher, John, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing. 4 Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research. 14: 557 Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 265 |
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 |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
was editor of the first number of Prospect, a literary magazine published this winter at Cambridge University
. She used her editorship (continued until the fifth issue) to introduce an American avant-garde influenced... |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | The article formed the basis Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File. 168 |
Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | She lectured at University College, London, in November 1966. Her Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge University
a year later became The Sovereignty of Good, 1970; her Romanes Lecture delivered at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford... |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | BH
is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.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... |