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, 1990.
Cornell University
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Laura Riding | Her will named a Board of Literary Management, including James Tyler
, librarian at Cornell
, which was to oversee the publication of her previously unpublished works, and to dissolve itself at the end of... |
Education | Toni Morrison | Chloe Wofford (later TM
) followed her BA with an MA in English Literature from Cornell University
, with a thesis on suicide in Virginia Woolf
and William Faulkner
. Innes, Lyn. “Toni Morrison Obituary”. theguardian.com, 6 Aug. 2019. |
Education | Elspeth Huxley | EH
sailed from England for New York, en route for her year at Cornell University. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002. 84 |
Education | Elspeth Huxley | Its attraction for her (although her ambition had been to go to Cambridge) was that it offered a course in agriculture that did not demand Latin for entrance. She was one of only two women... |
Education | Pearl S. Buck | At the same time and at the same institution, Cornell University
, 1924-5, PSB
worked for an MA. The award of the Messenger Prize for an essay while she was a student at Cornell (under... |
Education | Laura Riding | Laura Reichenthal (later LR
) was educated at Cornell University
, where there was then only one female faculty member outside the Department of Home Economics, and where she held three scholarships. She went on... |
Employer | Adrienne Rich | AR
was A. D. White
Professor-At-Large at Cornell University
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 74: 338 |
Employer | Pamela Hansford Johnson | While her husband was at Berkeley
, PHJ
lectured to girls at Mills College
. She held appointments at Yale
, Haverford College
, Pennsylvania, Cornell University
, the University of Kansas
, Wesleyan University |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | Catlin
(not to be confused with the nineteenth-century US painter George Catlin) was the only child of a Congregational minister and his pro-suffragette wife, whose feminist beliefs combined with her husband's growing hostility eventually ended... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | After Brittain returned to London, Catlin continued teaching at Cornell
, and together they pursued their semi-detached marriage: she lived in London, sharing her household with Winifred Holtby
, while he spent four and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elspeth Huxley | |
Occupation | Anne Sexton | In 1961 AS
began to get invitations to read or discuss her poetry: at Harvard
, Boston College
, and Cornell
. In the fall of 1961, she was appointed one of the first Radcliffe... |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | Q. D.
and F. R. Leavis
travelled to America, where they lectured at Cornell
and Harvard
. Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth, 1995. 127 |
Publishing | Frances Mary Peard | The Bodleian Library
's copy of The Locked Desk has a blue cloth cover (with touches of red) showing two young people at sea in a rowing boat. The cover of a US edition pictured... |
Reception | Pearl S. Buck | While a graduate student at Cornell
she made a deliberate bid at the lucrative ($250) Messenger Memorial Prize for the essay showing the best research and thinking on the field of human progress or the... |
Timeline
4 May 1975: Feminists working in Cornell University's...
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4 May 1975
Feminists working in Cornell University
's Human Affairs programme staged a public speak-out on discrimination against women in the workplace; they coined the term sexual harassment to describe objectionable actions ranging from inappropriate to violent.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
279-94
19 February 2007: Sarah Thomas, an American, made history when...
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19 February 2007
Sarah Thomas
, an American, made history when she became the first woman and the first non-British person appointed Bodley's Librarian: head librarian at Oxford University
's Bodleian Library
(opened on 8 November 1602).
Garner, Richard. “A double-first at the Bodleian library as US woman takes over”. The Independent, 21 Feb. 2007.
“First woman to become Bodley’s Librarian”. University of Oxford: News, 16 Nov. 2006.
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