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Vassar College
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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
. |
Education | Mary McCarthy | A year later, in 1926 MMC
enrolled at |
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... |
Reception | Mary McCarthy | Vassar College
holds MMC
's archive of papers. Scholarly interest in her was strong during the 1960s, resulting in at least three monographs and a bibliography by Sherli Goldman
, 1968. More recent are a... |
Occupation | Denise Levertov | DL
held various academic teaching appointments, beginning in 1965 at the City University of New York
and at Drew University
in New Jersey. In 1966-7 she taught at Vassar
. During the 1970s she... |
Occupation | Mary Lavin | At home she lectured to the English Society at University College
, Dublin, providing, from the point of view of budding writers, an invaluable supplement to the degree course in English Literature. Kilroy, Thomas et al. “Foreword”. In a Café, Town House, p. vii - x. vii |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
began writing poetry at the age of eight, mixing her own contributions with poems she learned by heart. The first money she earned by writing came at age twelve: a five-dollar gold piece for... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bishop | EB
left about 3,800 pages in her handwriting contained in 118 boxes, which went to the library at Vassar College
: drafts of poems (some of them entirely crossed out) and fragments of poems. Alice Quinn |
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