Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
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Textual Production | Annie S. Swan | Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen
, Edinburgh University
, and Columbia University
, New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers... |
Textual Production | Mary McCarthy | She first started to muse on and explore these ideas after the theft of Vermeer
's painting Young Lady with a Guitar by Irish terrorists during the winter of 1974. She was fascinated by the... |
Textual Production | Christian Milne | CM
, who as a child had copied out the poems of others by stealth, Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 58 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory
, Eliza Berkeley
, Mary Delany
, Ann Donellan
, and Hester Thrale
, besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and... |
Textual Production | Nan Shepherd | NS
published her first novel, The Quarry Wood, a bildungsroman whose heroine, Martha Ironside, has a passion for learning that takes her from poverty and squalor to the University of Aberdeen
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1359 (16 February 1928): 105 |
Textual Production | Hannah Arendt | In spring 1973 HA
delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen
, a series dating back to 1888, whose speakers over the years have included renowned philosophers. Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press. 448 |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | BH
is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Nan Shepherd | Once at the University of Aberdeen
on a bursary, Martha has to struggle with her gruelling commute by bicycle, with the realisation that she wants a four-year Honours degree instead of the shorter course she... |
Reception | Jane Ellen Harrison | Classics scholar JEH
received an Honorary LL.D from the University of Aberdeen
, the first conferred by the institution on a woman. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 116 |
Reception | Anna Swanwick | AS
received, in absentia, an Honorary LL.D from the University of Aberdeen
. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 220 |
Reception | Emma Tennant | She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded an Honorary DLitt from the University of Aberdeen
in 1996. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Reception | Evelyn Underhill | EU
received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford
and head retreats in the Anglican Church
, she was elected a... |
Reception | Muriel Spark | Three more Scottish universities followed Strathclyde's lead: MS
received Honorary DLitts from Edinburgh University
in 1989, Aberdeen
in 1995, and St Andrews
in 1998. In 1995, she received a DUniv from Heriot-Watt University
, where... |
Publishing | Nan Shepherd | While working on her undergraduate degree, NS
regularly contributed poetry and other writings to Alma Mater, the magazine of the University of Aberdeen
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Jane Ellen Harrison | In March 1895 she received the first honorary LLD awarded to a woman by the University of Aberdeen
, and two years later she received an honorary DLitt from the University of Durham
for her scholarship. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 116 |
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