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Wealth and Poverty | Georgette Heyer | |
Wealth and Poverty | George Eliot | GE
spent £5,000 establishing, with the help of Henry Sidgwick
and Michael Foster
, a three-year studentship in physiology at Cambridge
in memory of Lewes
, open equally to men and women. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 367 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 522 |
Travel | Hope Mirrlees | After completing her studies at Cambridge
, HM
embarked for France and Italy with her Newnham College
friend Karin Costelloe
. Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press. 135 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Virginia Woolf | This work is not so much a diary as a working notebook: its seven sketches take events or issues from VW
' life as grist to (in Doris Lessing
's words) five-finger exercises for future... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | Many of her essays dealt with women's issues and many were topical. University Degrees for Women (2 June 1877) and University Examinations for Women (2 and 9 February 1878) responded respectively to Parliament
's refusal... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Macaulay | This was the first full-length critical work on Forster. It expressed admiration for his writing, but some amusement or impatience over what it presents as his obsession with Englishness and with the all-male educational world... |
Textual Production | Germaine Greer | In 2013 GG
sold her archives (student notes and essays, scripts for the CambridgeFootlights Society
, literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, a handmade book designed for her friend Gay Clifford
, and professional and... |
Textual Production | Ann Jebb | The reform that would introduce annual exams at Cambridge University
was already AJ
's subject as well as her husband's: she had addressed it in the Whitehall Evening Post. The pamphlet generally ascribed to... |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Production | Anita Brookner | This originated as a series of lectures for the Courtauld Institute
, developed into six of AB
's Slade Lectures at Cambridge
, and thence into a monograph. The title came from McNay, Michael. “Anita Brookner obituary”. theguardian.com. |
Textual Production | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
published Some Unconscious Influences in the Theatre, a booklet of criticism based on the annual Judith Wilson Lecture she gave at Cambridge University the same year. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1976 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Dix, Carol. “Ann Jellicoe (interview)”. The Guardian, p. 10. 10 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | IM
published her novel An Accidental Man, which features both political and personal moral dilemmas, and is dedicated to her Cambridge
philosopher friend Kreisel
. Fletcher, John, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing. 4 Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research. 14: 557 Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 265 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | This character (considerably altered in transplanting) was not the novel's only ingredient from life. Its central episode was suggested by the trial for manslaughter of an actual Cambridge
undergraduate who had killed two elderly women... |
Textual Production | Melesina Trench | MT
sent a copy of this work (now very rare, like everything she published during her lifetime) to her friend Mary Leadbeater
. Leadbeater, Mary, and Mary Cunningham. The Annals of Ballitore, 1766-1824. Editor McKenna, John, Stephen Scroop. 102-3 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |