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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Enid Bagnold | This small, progressive school, which emphasized the study of art, literature, and theatre, was founded and headed by Julia (Mrs Leonard) Huxley
, mother of Aldous Huxley
and sister of the novelist Mary Augusta Ward |
Instructor | John Buchan | After going to school in several different towns as his father was allotted to various parishes, JB
went on a scholarship to Glasgow University
, where he specialised in classics and was taught by Gilbert Murray |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | She was the first among the young Darwin women to be married. Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber. 282 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF
put on many such readings, performing works by Homer
, Shelley
, Yeats
, Lady Gregory
... |
Performance of text | Florence Farr | As well as writing for the stage, FF
composed music for it, notably for Harley Granville-Barker
's production of Gilbert Murray
's translation of Hippolytus by Euripides
, which was performed in May 1902. She... |
Occupation | Florence Farr | FF
composed the music and led the chorus for Harley Granville-Barker
's production of Euripides
' Hippolytus, translated by Gilbert Murray
and performed at the Court Theatre
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 111 |
Literary responses | H. D. | T. S. Eliot
wrote that HD's versions of these choruses were allowing for errors and even occasional omissions of difficult passages, much nearer to both Greek and English than those of the then renowned scholar... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's father, Robert Adamson
, educated at Edinburgh University
, became Professor of Logic and Metaphysics successively at Owens College
(later merged in Manchester University), and the Universities of Aberdeen
and then Glasgow
... |
Reception | Jane Ellen Harrison | Six months after JEH
's death, she was commemorated at the inaugural Jane Harrison Lecture, delivered by her colleague and friend Gilbert Murray
at Newnham College
, Cambridge, where Harrison had studied and taught. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 13-14 |
Occupation | Jane Ellen Harrison | While highly innovative and thus sometimes controversial, JEH
's work was supported, as well as challenged, by a wide range of scholarly and critical sources. At Cambridge, she collaborated with colleagues including William Ridgeway
,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Ellen Harrison | Apart from R. A. Neil
, to whom Hope Mirrlees said she was engaged, Harrison was particularly close, in an emotional although a non-sexual way, to some of her other scholarly colleagues, Gilbert Murray
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | |
Textual Features | Jane Ellen Harrison | Departing from studies of the vegetation spirit undertaken by such scholars as J. G. Frazer
and Wilhelm Mannhardt
, Harrison argues for the significance of the year spirit as the embodiment not of the formal... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | Though her influence is not always explicitly acknowledged, JEH
made a profound impact on twentieth-century classical scholarship. Her work colours studies not only by Gilbert Murray
and Francis Cornford
(discussed above), but also by E. R. Dodds |
Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Hunt | VH
was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt
's... |