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.
University of Toronto
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Margaret Atwood | From 1957 she attended Victoria College
, University of Toronto
. Canadian publishing and the arts in Canada, broadly considered, had not yet recovered from the second world war. There were no cheap reprints of... |
Education | Anne Carson | After her receiving her undergraduate degree in 1974, AC
embarked on a Master's program in Classics, again at the University of Toronto
, in 1975. While enrolled at Toronto she travelled to St Andrews in... |
Education | Carol Shields | Later she took advantage of her position as a faculty wife to enroll for a course in writing for magazines (at her husband's suggestion) at the University of Toronto
—which changed the direction of her... |
Employer | Margaret Atwood | Back in Toronto between periods of study, MA
took a job in 1963 with a market research company, and then taught at the University of British Columbia
, 1964-5. |
Employer | Luce Irigaray | LI
began teaching at postsecondary level at the University of Paris VIII
in 1969, her teaching time there overlapping with her studies at the same institution towards her second doctorate. In 1974 her position there... |
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 | Margaret Laurence | ML
was appointed to a succession of writer-in-residence positions: at the University of Toronto
in 1969, at the University of Western Ontario
in 1973, and the year after that at Trent University
. She returned... |
Employer | Ling Shuhua | From 1956 to 1960, LS taught Chinese literature at Nanyang University
, and lived in both Singapore and London. She wrote and travelled, taking trips to Japan and Hong Kong. Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 309 |
Literary responses | Françoise de Graffigny | The current scholarly and feminist interest in FG
's work is shown by a flood of critical articles, the definitive edition of her letters, a website on them mounted by the University of Toronto
at... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Carol Shields | While she was enrolled in a magazine-writing course at the University of Toronto
, CS
wrote a story which to her amazement her instructor arranged to have broadcast on the CBC
, and over the... |
Reception | Julia Kristeva | In the early twenty-first century JK
continues to generate a continuous flow of critical comment. She claims a place in women's international literary history as a creator of paradigms applied to other texts. Heather Ingman |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | MA
's papers held by the University of Toronto
's rare book collection include manuscripts of published and unpublished work. |
Textual Production | Frances Brooke | She had contributions from several friends: her husband
, Arthur Murphy
, and Richard Gifford
, and Lord Orrery
, whose annotated copy survives in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
, University of Toronto |
Textual Production | Christine de Pisan | An English translation was published in 2008, edited by Karen Green
, Constant J. Mews
, and Janice Pinder
. In early 2019 the University of Toronto
announced its acquisition of a beautiful copy of... |
Textual Production | Ethel Wilson |
Timeline
4 March 1793: Edwin Griffith wrote in a copy of Tommy Trip's...
Building item
4 March 1793
Edwin Griffith wrote in a copy of Tommy Trip's Valentine Gift, 1785: Edwin Griffith the gift of his wife . . . . I shall keep this book as Long as it is in being.
Jackson, Heather. Marginalia: Readers’ Notes in Books, 1700-2000. Yale University Press, 2001.
December 1921: Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and John...
Building item
December 1921
Frederick Banting
, Charles Best
, and John J. R. Macleod
presented a paper to the American Physiological Society
on Banting and Best's discovery of insulin, while working in Macleod's labratory in Toronto.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
298
Ardley, Neil. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists. Helicon, 1996.
315-16
1962: Marshall McLuhan, an academic critic at the...
Writing climate item
1962
Marshall McLuhan
, an academic critic at the University of Toronto
, published perhaps his best-known book, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.
Herbert Marshall McLuhan The medium is the message 1911-1980. http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/main.html.
Texts
Byatt, A. S. Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction. Editor Bell, Hazel K., University of Toronto, 2001.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.