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Travel T. S. Eliot
TSE sailed from Southampton for Montreal en route for his Charles Eliot Norton professorship at Harvard ; it was his first visit back to the USA for seventeen years.
Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton.
192-4
Travel Angela Thirkell
She hated New York (a nasty, paltry . . . negligeable place) but loved Boston (where her old-fashioned hostess, Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton , seemed to her a wonderful remnant of the Flowering...
Travel Michèle Roberts
When in July 1986 he flew to Boston to take up a position at Harvard , she was supposed to follow him after staying long enough in Florence to oversee a total remodelling of his...
Travel Michèle Roberts
Nor did she enjoy living in Boston. She was lonely (her husband often away) and loathed living in an institution [Harvard ] . . . . having to be polite all the time...
Travel Willa Muir
WM spent an academic year in the USA, where Edwin Muir was Charles Eliot Norton Professor for the year at Harvard University , at the invitation of the poet Archibald MacLeish .
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
282, 284
Travel Zadie Smith
ZS visited the USA (New York) in April 2000 in connection with the publication of White Teeth, and was back there (Cambridge, Massachusetts, for her appointment at Harvard ) in 2002-3. She...
Textual Production Frances Reynolds
A manuscript of this in the Hyde Collection (now at the Houghton Library , Harvard ) bears revisions by Samuel Johnson , in red ink which he told FR she could easily remove with water...
Textual Production Leah Sumbel
Harvard has some Wells papers contained in a volume of letters and clippings; but only a couple of items in the eight-volume catalogue are listed as by LS .
Textual Production T. S. Eliot
TSE 's Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley, a revised version of his Harvard doctoral dissertation of 1916, appeared, edited and corrected by Anne Bolgan .
Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace.
99-100
Textual Production Fanny Kemble
FK 's papers are at the New York Public Library , the Harvard College Library, Butler Library at Columbia University , Boston Public Library , the British Library , and the Victoria and Albert Museum .
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research.
181
Textual Production Frances Reynolds
Hill wrote that he had revised as well as expanding the selections already published by Croker. He too, however, referred to FR 's work as a bundle of manuscripts rather than a finished account.
Hill, George Birkbeck, editor. Johnsonian Miscellanies. Clarendon Press.
1: xi
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
This volume contains four lectures given by the Leavises at Harvard and Cornell , three of which are by F. R. Leavis: Luddites? or, There is Only One Culture, Eliot 's Classical Standing...
Textual Production Elizabeth Tollet
Her authorship of this volume was first revealed in a note in Roger Lonsdale 's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets in 1989.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
842n116
Three copies are known to survive, at the British Library , Yale University ...
Textual Production Ephelia
The royal licence indicates that the gentlewoman attribution must have been accurate. The date belongs to the height of the plot: that is, the anti-Catholic furore that followed the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
Fifty items relating to CL (mostly letters addressed to her) survive in the Houghton Library , Harvard University . This collection was discovered in 1964 but took some years to reach scholarly notice.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, pp. 317-44.
317, 320-1

Timeline

28 October 1636: Harvard College was founded in Cambridge,...

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28 October 1636

Harvard College was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1643: Ann Radcliffe (no relation of the later novelist)...

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1643

Ann Radcliffe (no relation of the later novelist) founded the first scholarship at Harvard College in Newtown in Massachusetts, New England (which had begun as a seminary in 1636).

1847: The Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University...

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1847

The Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University refused to admit Harriot Hunt .

November 1850: Harriot Hunt was formally accepted into the...

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November 1850

Harriot Hunt was formally accepted into the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1894: The Harvard Annex (a women's section attached...

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1894

The Harvard Annex (a women's section attached to a male seat of learning, Harvard ) received its charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Radcliffe College , an institution for women.

1926-1927: A Harvard University African expedition led...

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1926-1927

A Harvard University African expedition led by Dr Richard P. Strong studied tropical diseases in the Belgian Congo and conducted a medical survey of Liberia.

4 February 2004: Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin launched...

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4 February 2004

Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin launched a social-media site called The Facebook for students at Harvard University . It was originally released as FaceMash , a website to determine the attractiveness of female students.
Horton, Alex. “Channeling ‘The Social Network,’ lawmaker grills Zuckerberg on his notorious beginnings”. The Washington Post.

By 26 April 2006: A novel issued in March in the USA, How Opal...

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By 26 April 2006

A novel issued in March in the USA, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, was withdrawn after the author, Kaavya Viswanathan , admitted unconscious plagiarism from Megan McCafferty .

11 February 2007: Drew Gilpin Faust, historian of the Civil...

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11 February 2007

Drew Gilpin Faust , historian of the Civil War and the American South, and dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study , was appointed the first female president of Harvard University .

Texts

Berglund, Lisa. “’The Notion that there is Sex in Words’: Johnson, Piozzi, and Gendered Lexicography”. Johnson at 300. A Houghton Library Symposium, Harvard University.
Schellenberg, Betty. “Manuscript Culture and Women as Patrons of Samuel Johnson”. Johnson at 300. A Houghton Library Symposium, Harvard University.