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Occupation | Gertrude Stein | On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 158-9 |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Performance of text | Edna St Vincent Millay | ESVM
published her play The Princess Marries the Page (in which she had played the lead both at Vassar
as an undergraduate and as a professional with the Provincetown Players
). Yost, Karl, and Harold Lewis Cook. A Bibliography of the Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Harper. 133-134 Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 137, 175 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
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 |
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
... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Reception | Edna St Vincent Millay | Renaissance (as it had been spelled before publication) did not win the five-hundred-dollar prize for the best poem of all; nor did it come second or third. But it received critical acclaim, and the judges'... |
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... |
Textual Features | Edna St Vincent Millay | This volume includes her poems of mourning for her Vassar
friend who died in the flu epidemic of 1918-19. American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Textual Production | Mary McCarthy | MMC
published through Harcourt, Brace and World
the novel that became her best-known work, The Group, about eight young female friends recently graduated from Vassar College
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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