Carr, Virginia Spencer. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. Doubleday and Co. Inc., 1975.
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Anthologization | Ann Batten Cristall | Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld
and her brother
, Ann Jebb
, the future Amelia Opie
, Anna Maria Porter
, Mary Wollstonecraft
and her sister, Mary Hays
and her sister, a Mrs Spence who... |
Cultural formation | Eudora Welty | EW
's time in New York City was educational not only academically but also in broadening her cultural horizons. As a middle-class white in America's Deep South she had grown up among people whose outlook... |
Education | Ursula K. Le Guin | Ursula Kroeber (later Le Guin)
followed her BA with an MA from Columbia University
, New York, and headed to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship to work on a PhD on the French poet... |
Education | Nawal El Saadawi | The earliest dream of NES
was to be a dancer, but studying music needed a piano, which was too expensive. She therefore turned, she said, to books and reading. She did not want to be... |
Education | Carson McCullers | Carson preferred to study not music but creative writing. She enrolled in courses at Columbia
before she lost all her money, and later studied also at New York University
. Carr, Virginia Spencer. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. Doubleday and Co. Inc., 1975. 44 Dews, Carlos L., and Carson McCullers. “Chronology and Notes”. Complete Novels, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, 2001, pp. 807-27. 808 |
Education | Eudora Welty | After this she attended the University of Wisconsin
, majoring in English Literature and studying under Ricardo Quintana
. Vande Kieft, Ruth M. Eudora Welty. Twayne Publishers, 1987. 4 Encyclopedia of World Biography. http://www.notablebiographies.com/index.html. |
Education | Helen Oyeyemi | HO
reports having been bullied at school in England. She attended the Catholic-run Cardinal Vaughn Memorial School
and later Corpus Christi College
, Cambridge, where she studied Political Science and Social Sciences. Before this... |
Employer | Julia Kristeva | She worked with Sollers
on Tel Quel (an avant-garde little magazine which became notorious for its support for Maoism), whose editorial board she joined in 1971. In New York, in 1976, she became a Permanent... |
Employer | Hélène Cixous | HC
became professor of English Literature at the new university. The university soon distinguished itself by attracting an extremely high-quality faculty, though the French government never particularly appreciated its existence. HC
founded the Centre des Recherches en Etudes Féminines |
Employer | Adrienne Rich | In addition to Columbia
and the City University of New York
, AR
taught at numerous American universities throughout her career. |
Employer | Margaret Mead | When the second world war began, MM
worked to get the USA into it. From the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she worked in Washington, DC, as an administrator for the... |
Employer | Toni Morrison | After her MA she embarked on an academic career, teaching English literature and creative writing. She worked at Texas Southern University
from 1955 to 1957, then from 1957 to 1964 at her own alma mater,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jan Struther | JS
finally married Adolf Kurt Placzek
, by then a librarian at Columbia University
in New York, her lover of nearly a decade, whom she had met during his refugee days in England. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001. 267 Reynolds, David. “Zest”. London Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2002, pp. 34-5. 35 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eudora Welty | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
's father, John Vardill
, was born in the American colonies in 1749 and educated at King's College
, New York (the forerunner of Columbia University). In 1773 he became Professor of Natural Law... |
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