Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Cambridge University
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Gillian Allnutt | Sheba Feminist Publishers
, established in January 1980, is a small independent publisher that champions the work of marginalized UK women. This includes the writing of women who [haven't] been to Oxford
or Cambridge
... |
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... |
Education | Jane Barker | She later had some expertise in medicine, which it seems she may have learned from her brother or some of his Cambridge
friends. Biographer Kathryn King
concludes that JB
had a more than passing acquaintance... |
Publishing | Jane Barker | The material in the volume was later revised as the third part of the Magdalen Manuscript. The publisher advertised the volume in December 1687, using JB
's name. This is the only instance of his... |
Reception | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's many honours during her lifetime included the Sonning Prize for European Culture in 1983, and an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University
. There is a Simone de Beauvoir Institute
at Concordia University
in... |
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... |
Literary Setting | Caroline Bowles | The Early Called, a story of early deaths from consumption, occupies two chapters. The first introduces Mrs Arden, a childless widow who cares for her niece and nephew, Herbert and Anna Ross, who were... |
Education | Anna Eliza Bray | At home, she taught herself Italian and also received instruction in Latin from Michael Slegg
, a friend of her brother's from Cambridge University
. Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall. 103-4 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school in his teens, became a gentleman's tutor, and finally... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became... |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | While at Newnham College
, EFB
began her acquaintance with Charlotte Mary Martin
, later Charlotte Wilson
, a forceful young bluestocking with a similar growing dissatisfaction about the political beliefs that she was exposed... |
Employer | Anita Brookner | AB
became the first woman Slade Professor of art at Cambridge University
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. 144 |
Textual Production | Anita Brookner | This originated as a series of lectures for the Courtauld Institute
, developed into six of AB
's Slade Lectures at Cambridge
, and thence into a monograph. The title came from McNay, Michael. “Anita Brookner obituary”. theguardian.com. |
Characters | Frances Browne | The second story, Found in the Far North, is narrated in the first person by a young Cambridge
student from Norwich whose failure to heed his father's advice about choosing his company with care... |
Timeline
1231: Cambridge University was granted its first...
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1231
Cambridge University
was granted its first charter, by Henry III
.
1502: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...
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1502
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
(also known as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of the future Henry VII
), endowed the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge University.
1534: Henry VIII granted a charter to Cambridge...
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1534
Henry VIII
granted a charter to Cambridge University
giving the right to set up a printing press: Cambridge University Press
, the world's earliest surviving publishing house, printed its first book exactly fifty years later.
1575: The University of Leiden was founded as a...
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1575
The University of Leiden
was founded as a centre of Protestant learning (as were a number of new Oxford
and Cambridge
colleges at about this time, with the same religio-political agenda).
28 October 1636: Harvard College was founded in Cambridge,...
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28 October 1636
Harvard College
was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Late 1638: Milton's pastoral elegy Lycidas appeared...
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Late 1638
Milton
's pastoralelegyLycidas appeared in a volume of Cambridge
poems published in memory of Edward King
, who had died by drowning.
18 June 1723-1724: A periodical entitled The Visiter was published...
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18 June 1723-1724
A periodical entitled The Visiter was published in London; it promised its readers to be a friend to them.
1805: The East India Company established a training...
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1805
The East India Company
established a training college for civil servants.
1 October 1828: The Cambridge campaign to increase the study...
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1 October 1828
The Cambridge
campaign to increase the study of science in universities resulted in the founding of University College, London
, which emphasized science; this was the date of the inaugural lecture.
1832: The University of Durham was founded....
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1832
The University of Durham was founded.
1854: The Oxford University Reform Act first allowed...
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1854
The Oxford University
Reform Act first allowed Jews to matriculate and take degrees.
1865: Cambridge University formally admitted female...
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1865
Cambridge University
formally admitted female students to Local Examinations, which were the culminating assessment of secondary schooling.
October 1865: Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's...
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October 1865
Elizabeth Garrett
obtained an apothecary's licence through the Society of Apothecaries
: this began her medical career, after her rejection by the Universities of London
, Edinburgh
, St Andrews
, Oxford
, and Cambridge
.
1871: The University Test Act abolished all religious...
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1871
The University Test Act abolished all religious tests (of loyalty to the Church of England
) at both ancient universities in England (Oxford
and Cambridge
) for admittance to matriculation, degrees, prizes, and fellowships.
Texts
Ceraldi, Gabrielle. “Popish Legends and Bible Truths: English Protestant Identity in Catherine Sinclair’s Beatrice”. Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol.
31
, No. 1, Cambridge University, pp. 359-72. Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.