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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... |
Reception | Rose Macaulay | RM
received an Honorary DLitt from Cambridge University
; the award was a major event in the last decade of her life. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 308-9 Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne. chronology |
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 |
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... |
Reception | Q. D. Leavis | However, an early and strongly condemnatory review appeared from F. L. Lucas
of King's College
. Lucas argued that QDL
's élitist, ineffective scholarship idealized both pre-industrial literacy and contemporary highbrow culture. To inform one's... |
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... |
Reception | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
has remained little known in literary history, and in the history of exploration she has been displaced in public consciousness by her husband's second wife. However, this situation has begun to change. On 16... |
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 |
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 |
Textual Features | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on... |
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 |
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