Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard

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...

CPG 's correspondence with Vernon Lee (on whom she was an important influence) survives among Lee's papers at Somerville College , Oxford. Scharnhorst writes that her papers once in her daughter's hands were...

After four years at Radcliffe College , Ursula Kroeber (later Le Guin) graduated with a BA in Romance Languages, specializing in Renaissance French and Italian.

RL 's mother, Alice Marie (Davis) Lehmann , was from New England (of true blue Puritan Mayflower stock) and a graduate of Radcliffe College . She studied history and, according to biographer...

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...

TO made many personal friendships with writers; Hannah Green , who was fifteen years younger, acted as her mentor. She developed a close friendship with the poet Anne Sexton , from the time that...

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...

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...

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...

AR studied at Radcliffe College , where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society and graduated cum laude.

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...

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...

GS had had a flirtation with Leon Solomons during her years at Radcliffe , which remained [p]latonic because neither cared to do more. They had much in common: both were Jewish, intellectuals, and Californians.

On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York. At Columbia University she had been expected to give four lectures to audiences of approximately two hundred each. However...

GS 's studies in psychology, philosophy, and medicine fiction left a deep imprint on her way of thinking and in her work. At Radcliffe College she learned from William James his philosophy of Pragmatism: I...