Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
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Occupation | Gertrude Stein | GS
delivered lectures at Cambridge
and Oxford
Universities; these were later published by the Hogarth Press
. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 115-18 |
Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | Edith Sitwell
had hosted a tea for GS
when she came to lecture at Cambridge
and Oxford
earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press. 184 |
Education | Ray Strachey | |
Cultural formation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | ACS
came from a noble family. His maternal grandparents were George, third earl of Ashburnham
and his wife (who was born Lady Charlotte Percy
). His paternal grandfather, Sir John Edward Swinburne
, owned an... |
Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He turned down an honorary degree from Oxford
and a Civil List
pension. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
wrote amusingly of the horror of appearing on a television programme about books, filmed at Birmingham: sitting on spindly chairs under dazzling lights with other participants (Angus Wilson
, whom she liked... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Tollet | Her other brother, already at Oxford
, was apparently not a very diligent student. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 15 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | In a poem written at the age of twenty-one Elizabeth Sophia mentions four little sisters and a little brother, aged from two and a half to eleven and a half. She was evidently closest, emotionally... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | By the end of 1910, VT
had become romantically involved with Alan Parsons
, whom she had met at Brancaster in Norfolk. At the beginning of their courtship, she was still studying music in... |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | This letter (fully titled A Letter to Dr. Holdsworth, occasioned by his Sermon preached before the University of Oxford
on Easter-Monday, concerning the resurrection of the same body. In which the passages that concern Mr... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Tytler | She moved to Oxford in order to be close to her friends Janet Wallace
(one of her former students) and her husband the Hegelian philosopher and Oxford
academic William Wallace
. The Wallaces originated from... |
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... |
Occupation | Helen Waddell | After Oxford
(where she gave the lectures which launched her scholarly career), HW
applied for various academic jobs, which her biographer Monica Blackett
considers it lucky she did not get. (Many of these jobs included... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Waddell | |
Textual Production | Doreen Wallace | DW
's first published novel, A Little Learning (titled from Alexander Pope
), satirically depicts both the all-female world of an Oxford
women's college and the world beyond the college walls, heterosexual but restrictive for... |
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