Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Princeton University
Connections
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Employer | Hannah Arendt | |
Employer | Toni Morrison | |
Employer | Toni Morrison | She maintained her academic identity with short-term appointments at the State University of New York
and then Princeton
. She says: There were certain things I could do with ease. Teach. And read books. And... |
Employer | Anne Carson | AC
has taught at universities across North America. She is currently, in 2015, teaching at Bard College
in New York State. She began her teaching career at the University of Calgary
, and has also... |
Employer | Ruth Padel | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Linda Villari | |
Friends, Associates | Jean Ingelow | Thirteen of the letters they exchanged are held in the Firestone Library
at Princeton
. Their relationship was somewhat unusual, as U. C. Knoepflmacher
notes. Ruskin at one time counted Ingelow among his eleven closest... |
Leisure and Society | Maria Edgeworth | John Downman
painted an attractive half-length portrait of her in watercolour and pencil (now at Princeton University
) in 1807. After it changed hands at the Peyraud
sale in 2009, a reproduction of it was... |
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 |
Publishing | Eleanor Sleath | This book was written during a highly social period of ES
's life, and advertised in February 1799. Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 761 |
Reception | Mary Gawthorpe | She left these papers to her nephew Sidney John Ward
(her sister Annie's son), and his daughters donated them to Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
in New York City. Other papers... |
Reception | Marina Warner | Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute
(1992), Trinity College, Cambridge
(1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University
(1999), Stanford University
(2000), and All Souls College
, Oxford (2001). She... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory
, Eliza Berkeley
, Mary Delany
, Ann Donellan
, and Hester Thrale
, besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and... |
Textual Production | Sylvia Beach | Not long before her death SB
composed a brief memoir of her internment by the Germans at Vittel during the second world war, for a radio programme to be shared with her fellow-internee the painter... |
Textual Production | Sarah Harriet Burney | Independent scholar Sheila Graham-Smith
has recently suggested that SHB
may be the author of a manuscript novella in the possession of Princeton University
entitled Julia. A Tale in Ten Chapters. She bases her argument... |
Timeline
1836: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount...
Building item
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.
6 November 1919: Published observations of a solar eclipse,...
Building item
6 November 1919
Published observations of a solar eclipse, made in Brazil and West Africa by two sets of British astronomers, confirmed Albert Einstein
's theory of relativity.
By late 1996: Helen Fielding hit the best-selling jackpot...
Women writers item
By late 1996
Helen Fielding
hit the best-selling jackpot when her novelBridget Jones's Diary (originally a newspaper column begun the previous year) was published as a book.
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