Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, p. ix - xii, xix-lv.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Emily Davies | The manuscript, held by Girton College, Cambridge
, is discussed below. Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, p. ix - xii, xix-lv. xx |
Reception | Emily Davies | Her papers at Girton
include the unpublished manuscript which she referred to as the Family Chronicle, which describes her early life, but from which the hundred pages dealing with the years 1849-61 (present when... |
Employer | Anita Desai | AD
has held teaching positions at Smith College
(1987-88) and Mount Holyoke College
(1988-93) in the USA. She was a Fellow of Girton College
, 1986-88, and of Clare Hall
in 1989 and 1991, both... |
politics | George Eliot | GE
was always ambivalent about the struggle for women's rights. This ambivalence may have been fed by the fact that her situation with Lewes made her peculiarly vulnerable to public attack of a personal flavour... |
Wealth and Poverty | George Eliot | With the publication of Middlemarch at the end of 1872, GE
reached the ranks of the wealthy. She invested in modern enterprises like canals, railways, and gas companies, and also gave a good deal of... |
Occupation | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Some time after her husband died, MGF
was offered the position of Mistress of Girton
; she declined, saying that she had no attention to spare except for the suffrage struggle. Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, pp. 184-02. 189 Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray. 106-7 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Margaret Forster | Having sat the Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams at her school in Carlisle (taking the gamble of an extra term at school after her A-levels to do so, though if she failed to make Oxbridge... |
Textual Production | Mary Frere | Late in life MF
seems, from her sister's account, to have been working at writing something about the Hebrew language and early biblical texts. She formed gradually some theories, Frere, Georgina, and Herbert Loewe. “Biographical Notice”. Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish MSS. in the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge, Girton College, p. v - xii. vii |
Occupation | Mary Frere | Thus MF
achieved her aim of forming the nucleus of a library to be a help and inspiration for students who wanted to gain a true knowledge of Holy Writ, Loewe, Herbert. Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish MSS. in the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge. Girton College. ii |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Frere | Her wealth at death was £4702 12s. 1d. In her will she left the munificent bequest Loewe, Herbert. Catalogue of the Printed Books and of the Semitic and Jewish MSS. in the Mary Frere Hebrew Library at Girton College, Cambridge. Girton College. ii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | However, JEH
's most famous and explicit reappearance is in Virginia Woolf
's A Room of One's Own, a text which evolved from a series of lectures that Woolf—Harrison's friend, admirer, and publisher—gave at... |
Reception | P. D. James | She received an impressive number of honours from various universities. She had an Honorary DLitt from the Universities of Buckingham (1992), London (1993), Hertfordshire (1994), Glasgow (1995), Durham (1998), and Portsmouth (1999). She also had... |
Textual Production | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
's correspondence is scattered. The Huntington Library
has six letters; others are located in the collections of her recipients, such as the Bessie Rayner Parkes papers at Girton College
and the Lovelace papers at... |
Education | Sheila Kaye-Smith | |
politics | Anna Kingsford | She lectured to organizations, societies, and schools, including the highly heterodox Zetetical Society
, the Sunday Lecture Society
, and the pioneering women students at Girton College
, Cambridge. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers. 91-3, 101 |
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