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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Margaret Atwood | From 1957 she attended Victoria College
, University of Toronto
. Canadian publishing and the arts in Canada, broadly considered, had not yet recovered from the second world war. There were no cheap reprints of... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | CPG
's correspondence with Vernon Lee
(on whom she was an important influence) survives among Lee's papers at Somerville College
, Oxford. Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Ohio University Press. 182n9 |
Education | Ursula K. Le Guin | After four years at Radcliffe College
, Ursula Kroeber (later Le Guin)
graduated with a BA in Romance Languages, specializing in Renaissance French and Italian. Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House. 26 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
's mother, Alice Marie (Davis) Lehmann
, was from New England (of true blue Puritan Mayflower stock) Tindall, Gillian. Rosamond Lehmann: An Appreciation. Chatto and Windus; Hogarth Press. 12 |
Occupation | Tillie Olsen | After this, following the example of Anne Sexton
, she secured a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute
, and moved for a year to Boston with her husband and youngest daughter. This fellowship was extended... |
Friends, Associates | Tillie Olsen | TO
made many personal friendships with writers; Hannah Green
, who was fifteen years younger, acted as her mentor. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press. 198 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Tillie Olsen | TO
committed herself to producing a huge novel during her tenure of a Ford Foundation
grant (for two years from 1959). The burden of this commitment brought physical and mental collapse in early 1961. The... |
Textual Production | Tillie Olsen | TO
's dazzling performance as a Communist speaker was the first phase of a career that led towards her later years as a star literary lecturer. As a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
she spoke... |
Textual Features | Tillie Olsen | Olsen gave this book a double dedication. The first read: For our silenced people, century after century their beings consumed in the hard, everyday essential work of maintaining human life. Their art, which still they... |
Education | Adrienne Rich | AR
studied at Radcliffe College
, where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa
society and graduated cum laude. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. 13: 249 |
Employer | Anne Sexton | In 1961 AS
began to get invitations to read or discuss her poetry: at Harvard
, Boston College
, and Cornell
. In the fall of 1961, she was appointed one of the first Radcliffe... |
Employer | Zadie Smith | As an undergraduate ZS
already hoped one day to make her living through the noble art of literature. Though she felt compelled to disguise her ambition with a joke, it came true with remarkable speed... |
Education | Gertrude Stein | GS
was accepted into the Harvard Annex
(soon to become Radcliffe College; now Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard) as a special student. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 18 Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley. 26 |
Education | Gertrude Stein | GS
was admitted to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
on probationary status until she obtained her Bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College
. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 24 Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley. 35 |
Cultural formation | Gertrude Stein | GS
was born in the United States to middle-class, Jewish parents who had emigrated from Germany. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 1-4 |
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