Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
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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. 308-9 Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne. chronology |
Reception | Mary Somerville | The review ridiculed the notion of popularizing advanced scientific works for the unwashed and criticized the publisher for believing a woman capable of such a learned enterprise. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 84 |
Reception | Jane Ellen Harrison | But this publication brought JEH
much positive recognition as well. Shortly after its appearance, for instance, came the invitation, never before extended to a woman, to speak in the precincts of Cambridge University
(in this... |
Reception | Q. D. Leavis | However, an early and strongly condemnatory review appeared from F. L. Lucas
of King's College
. Lucas argued that QDL
's élitist, ineffective scholarship idealized both pre-industrial literacy and contemporary highbrow culture. To inform one's... |
Reception | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
received some praise for her vivid writing, but was attacked for what critics saw as her comparative ignorance of philology and etymology and weakness in her evidence. In what her biographer Annabel Robinson
identifies... |
Reception | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
has remained little known in literary history, and in the history of exploration she has been displaced in public consciousness by her husband's second wife. However, this situation has begun to change. On 16... |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | After the Femina Vie Heureuse prize for To the Lighthouse, VW
refused in principle to accept any honour from an institution. She declined to give the Clark Lectures at Cambridge University
, as well... |
Reception | Iris Murdoch | Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University
. Cambridge University
awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford |
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. 170 Smith, Zadie. “Granta 67. Zadie Smith. The Waiter’s Wife”. Granta. |
Publishing | Virginia Woolf | |
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 | |
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 |
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