White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton.
218, 222, 225
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Employer | Alice Walker | She supplemented her Radcliffe Institute
writing fellowship (worth $5,000, awarded for a year and extended for a second year) by teaching at Wellesley College
. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 218, 222, 225 |
Occupation | Alice Walker | Walker closed her stay at the Radcliffe Institute
with homage to Zora Neale Hurston
, whose writings and life-story she had only recently discovered. She borrowed a curse-prayer from Hurston's Mules and Men, and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Alice Walker | She finished work on this volume (titled from a plant which her mother rescued from a deserted house, kept for years, and gave away in cuttings) during the first year of her Radcliffe Institute
fellowship... |
Textual Production | Alice Walker | When in September 1970 Walker applied for a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute
at Cambridge to work on this novel, she was planning that her protagonist, a young, Southern woman studying at a genteel black... |
Occupation | P. L. Travers | PLT
followed her writer-in-residence stint at Radcliffe College
with another year in the same position at Smith College
, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne. xii |
Employer | P. L. Travers | PLT
had a year as writer-in-residence at Radcliffe College
, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne. xii |
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 |
Education | Gertrude Stein | In May 1898, after completing a Latin requirement, GS
graduated magna cum laude in philosophy from Radcliffe College
. She was now fully qualified for admission to Johns Hopkins
. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press. 43 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gertrude Stein | GS
had had a flirtation with Leon Solomons
during her years at Radcliffe
, which remained [p]latonic because neither cared to do more. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press. 37 |
Occupation | Gertrude Stein | On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 158-9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gertrude Stein | 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... |
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... |
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... |
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