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Employer Hannah Arendt
In 1959 HA became the first woman to be appointed to a full-time faculty position at Princeton .
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.
She had already in 1952 won a Guggenheim Fellowship and been the first woman ever invited by...
Employer Toni Morrison
TM was named the Robert F. Goheen Professor of the Humanities at Princeton , becoming the first black woman to hold a chair in an Ivy League University.
Kitwana, Bakari. “1978 Awardees: Toni Morrison”. Cleveland Arts Prize.
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
RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds.
Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm.
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Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...
Family and Intimate relationships Linda Villari
LV 's mother was born Mary Lind in Jamaica in 1816.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
. She married LV 's father on 27 February 1833 at St Matthew, Friday Street, in London.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
In her autobiographical novel When I...
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.
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At Columbia University she had been expected to give four lectures to audiences of approximately two hundred each. However...
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.
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Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...
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...

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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.

6 November 1919: Published observations of a solar eclipse,...

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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...

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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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