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Education | Patricia Highsmith | PH
graduated with her BA from Barnard College
, the women's college of Columbia University, NewYork. Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003. 92 Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1973–2024, Numerous volumes. 102: 166 Patricia Highsmith. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/highsm.htm. |
Education | Zora Neale Hurston | ZNH
was the first African-American student at Barnard College
, New York. She studied there on scholarship and graduated with a BA in cultural anthropology, specializing in African-American folklore. Harris, Trudier, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 51. Gale Research, 1987. 51: 133, 135 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr et al., editors. “Chronology”. Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad, 1993, pp. 311-12. 311 |
Education | Margaret Mead | After graduating from high school in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, MM
intended to go to Wellesley College
, her mother's alma mater, which was then an all-female institution. But her father refused to fund her higher... |
Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM
to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College
(through Caroline B. Dow |
Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | After her semester at Barnard College
, ESVM
entered Vassar
in fall 1913 (despite failing the entrance exams in algebra and history, though she passed geometry) to study literature and languages. She was a rebel... |
Education | Patricia Highsmith | PH
enrolled for a BA course in English Literature at Barnard College
, the women's college of Columbia University, NewYork. Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003. 63 |
Employer | Bernardine Evaristo | Apart from other writing-life activities like reading her poems in London and on tour, BE
has a successful career as an academic teacher of creative writing. She has worked in the UK at the University of East Anglia |
Family and Intimate relationships | Patricia Highsmith | |
Friends, Associates | Zora Neale Hurston | While in New York, ZNH
made numerous significant connections, including those with author Fannie Hurst
, who employed her as a secretary, and Annie Nathan Meyer
, a trustee of Barnard College
(the women's college... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Patricia Highsmith | Having published stories while still at Barnard
, PH
continued once she was in employment. Home and Food published her Uncertain Treasure (later reprinted as Mountain Treasure) in August 1943. Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003. 93 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
took up the role for this year of Guildersleeve Lecturer at Barnard College
, then the women's college of Columbia University
, New York; this was her second spell at Columbia. “Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library. |
Occupation | Helen Waddell | |
Occupation | Sarah Grand | SG
's tour lasted four months, during which time she lectured at the women's institutions of higher education Barnard College
in New York and Bryn Mawr College
in Pennsylvania, as well as in San... |
Publishing | Patricia Highsmith | At seventeen, back in Texas before going to college, she thought at a film of A Midsummer-Night's Dream: Mendelssohn
was no older when he wrote that overture. What a genius! Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990. 23-4 |
Reception | John Oliver Hobbes | After her death, through the efforts of Jennie Churchill
, Blanche Eliot
, and Zoë Procter
, a £500 John Oliver Hobbes scholarship in English Literature was donated to University College, London
, along with... |
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