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politics Emily Davies
Despite her commitment to equal standards of education, ED felt that the artificial separation of boys and girls during earlier education made it impossible to have integrated university lectures and thought it wisest to situate...
politics Emily Davies
The College applied for incorporation as an Association under the Board of Trade in order to establish its legal existence. The document drawn up by the College's Committee professed the College's affiliation with both the...
Author summary Q. D. Leavis
In her socio-anthropological critical monographs and essays, QDL evaluates literature by examining it in the context of the culture from which it emerges. She focuses on intellectual, social, and moral elements of literary work, and...
Publishing Jane Barker
The material in the volume was later revised as the third part of the Magdalen Manuscript. The publisher advertised the volume in December 1687, using JB 's name. This is the only instance of his...
Publishing Zadie Smith
ZS placed a story, The Waiter's Wife, in Granta, Cambridge University 's literary magazine and a venue for many young writers who later became widely known. She continued to publish in Granta after this.
Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Smith, Zadie. “Granta 67. Zadie Smith. The Waiter’s Wife”. Granta.
Publishing Virginia Woolf
VW published Women and Fiction (from her two lectures given at the women's colleges at Cambridge ) in Forum (New York).
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
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Publishing Maggie Gee
MG was chosen for publication in the Cambridge University magazine Granta in 1983, and has contributed to The Guardian, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Mslexia, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday...
Publishing Ann Jebb
The Whitehall Evening Post carried a contribution from AJ advocating annual examinations at Cambridge (an issue over which her husband resigned).
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
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, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
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Publishing Mary Masters
She had been writing and gathering the material here for at least ten years. The volume was printed for the Author, and dedicated to Lord Burlington (who subscribed for eight copies). Its publication was...
Publishing Rosalind Coward
RC first published in Granta and Broadsheet, student periodicals at Cambridge .
Publishing Elizabeth Hands
The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed . It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...
Publishing Mary Davys
MD 's draft of The Reform'd Coquet circulated before publication among Cambridge undergraduates, who suggested improvements.
Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix.
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Publishing Rosamond Lehmann
From the age of eight RL spent whole mornings writing (verse dramas, epics, lyrics and narrative poems,
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
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as well as sketches and novellas). But later she cast them on the flames as...
Reception Simone de Beauvoir
SB 's many honours during her lifetime included the Sonning Prize for European Culture in 1983, and an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University . There is a Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University in...
Reception Rose Macaulay
RM received an Honorary DLitt from Cambridge University ; the award was a major event in the last decade of her life.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
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Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne.
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