Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM
to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College
(through Caroline B. Dow |
| Education | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
loved the village school in Great Village, Nova Scotia, where she learned to read and write. She later, supported by a Bishop family trust, attended first a summer camp, then a private school... |
| Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | After her semester at Barnard College
, ESVM
entered Vassar
in fall 1913 (despite failing the entrance exams in algebra and history, though she passed geometry) to study literature and languages. She was a rebel... |
| Education | Iris Murdoch | At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University
and a place at Vassar
in New York State, as... |
| Education | Mary McCarthy | A year later, in 1926 MMC
enrolled at |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Bishop | Her relations with her mother (born Gertrude Bulmer or Boomer) were not happy. Gertrude sometimes hit her, or forgot all about her, or screamed loud and long enough to be heard at a distance. She... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edna St Vincent Millay | At Vassar
, where cross-dressing and same-sex relationships were the norm, she skilfully played off two suitors against each other in her first year, and in her second formed a pair with Elaine Ralli
... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edna St Vincent Millay | Though he identified as Dutch, his mother was Irish and his father's family originally French. Millay deeply admired his first wife, Inez Milholland
(a Vassar
graduate, a lawyer, and a socialist, who died in 1916... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary McCarthy | The year she graduated from Vassar
, MMC
married the actor, director and playwright Harold Johnsrud
. She later realized that she had done the wrong thing. To marry a man without loving him... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Edna St Vincent Millay | As a student at Vassar
she published poetry and plays in the Vassar Miscellany Monthly, including her poem The Suicide—which won her a prize but which Caroline Dow
had urged her to abandon... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Mary McCarthy | When MMC
first started writing, she focused her efforts on critical reviews and essays. While still at Vassar
she started a rebel literary magazine, Con Spirito, with two of her classmates, Frani Blough
and... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
| Occupation | Edna St Vincent Millay | ESVM
now cast around for work, possibly on stage. She sent out poems to magazines, often fruitlessly. She earned a little by acting with the Provincetown Players
from December 1917, building on her long experience... |
| Occupation | Agnes Mary Clerke | AMC
's passion for astronomy led to her success and recognition in the field of this predominantly masculine science. Though she was never officially employed as an astronomer, she declined an offer to work for... |
Timeline
1836: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount...
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1836
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
(later Mount Holyoke College) was founded at South Hadley, Maryland, by Mary Lyon
: the first post-secondary educational institution for women in the USA.
“Women and the Academy”. Higher Learning in America: History Department, Barnard College, Columbia University.
1865: Maria Mitchell became the first woman to...
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1865
Maria Mitchell
became the first woman to be appointed as a professor of astronomy, at Vassar College.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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By late 1963: The best-known novel by US author Mary McCarthy,...
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By late 1963
The best-known novel by US author Mary McCarthy
, The Group, appeared in Britain. It traces the later lives of a number of graduates of Vassar
, then an all-women's college.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(7 November 1963): 901
12 February 1980: US poet Muriel Rukeyser died in Greenwich...
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12 February 1980
US poet Muriel Rukeyser
died in Greenwich Village, New York, two years after publishing her Collected Poems and four years after her last new collection, The Gates, 1976.
Gardinier, Suzanne. “The Moral Imagination”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
23
, No. 4, July–Aug. 2006, pp. 10-11. 10-11
16 October 2012: The American Library in Paris held a ceremony...
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16 October 2012
The American Library in Paris
held a ceremony with speeches and an exhibition to commemorate the writer Mary McCarthy
, who died in 1989 but whose one hundredth birthday fell this year. Her alma mater,...
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