Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Sorbonne, University of Paris
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Textual Features | Toni Morrison | She broke new ground again here, this time by including white characters who are important in themselves as well as by giving more attention to relationship between blacks and whites |
Residence | Violet Trefusis | Here they kept up a front of marriage but led essentially separate lives. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 212-13 |
Residence | Nawal El Saadawi | |
Publishing | Anna Kingsford | The thesis, originally titled De l'alimentation végétale chez l'homme, was presented in July 1880 to the Faculté de Médicine of Paris
. The text (said by the Anna Kingsford site to have been published... |
Publishing | Jessie White Mario | In 1855 she probably published in The Biographical Magazine the life of Felicité de Lammenais
, excommunicated French priest, literary critic, and translator, whom she met while studying at the Sorbonne
. The article appeared... |
politics | Jessie White Mario | While studying at the Sorbonne
, Jessie White (later JWM
) travelled with friends to Italy, where she met Garibaldi
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 8 |
politics | Simone de Beauvoir | Towards the end of the first world war SB
's political consciousness was born when she began to see war as both evil and unnecessary. Germans, too, she realised, could suffer and die: she wished... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Violet Trefusis | Around 1924, when VT
was attending classes at the Sorbonne
, she wrote a play (unpublished and probably unperformed) about Mary, Queen of Scots
and Elizabeth I
titled Les soeurs ennemies. Sharpe, Henrietta. A Solitary Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis. Constable. 79 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Kingsford | They met after the successful publication that year of Maitland's novel By and By: an Historical Romance of the Future. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Edward Maitland |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
met Jean-Paul Sartre
while both were preparing to write agrégation exams at the Sorbonne
in Paris. Brosman, Catharine Savage. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Twayne. 12 |
Employer | Hélène Cixous | With a secondary school teaching diploma in English, HC
began teaching in 1959, the year before she began working on her doctoral thesis, at the lycée (a selective secondary school which prepares for university entrance)... |
Employer | Hélène Cixous | HC
became professor of English Literature at the new university. The university soon distinguished itself by attracting an extremely high-quality faculty, though the French government never particularly appreciated its existence. HC
founded the Centre des Recherches en Etudes Féminines |
Education | Sylvia Kantaris | Sylvia Mosley went to Lady Manners School in Bakewell and then took an Honours BA in French at Bristol University
in 1957. During her undergraduate course she also took a Diplome d'Etudes de Civilisation Française... |
Education | Anna Kingsford | AK
was admitted to the Sorbonne (the University of Paris) to study medicine, after she successfully passed an entrance exam in London. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers. 57 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Edward Maitland |
Education | Anna Kingsford |
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February 1869: Denied access to a degree in England because...
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February 1869
Denied access to a degree in England because of her sex but with an apothecary's licence and considerable medical experience behind her, Elizabeth Garrett
began her medical degree at the Sorbonne
, Paris, from...
June 1870: Elizabeth Garrett graduated with a medical...
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June 1870
Elizabeth Garrett
graduated with a medical degree from the Sorbonne, having been unable to obtain one in England.
By July 1955: Françoise Sagan, aged eighteen, repeated...
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By July 1955
Françoise Sagan
, aged eighteen, repeated in England the previous year's sensational success in France of her novelBonjour Tristesse: the English version was by Irene Ash
.
1974: African American activist Angela Davis published...
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1974
African American activist Angela Davis
published Angela Davis: An Autobiography.
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