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Occupation Virginia Woolf
Increasingly in demand as a public speaker, VW lectured at the London School of Economics. Her talk to the CambridgeHeretics Society the following May grew into her essay Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Occupation Mary Somerville
MS and her husband , at the behest of a group of Cambridge's mathematical scholars impressed with her work on Laplace , arrived at Cambridge University for a week-long stay.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff.
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Occupation Ruth Padel
RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds.
Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm.
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Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...
Occupation Gertrude Stein
GS delivered lectures at Cambridge and Oxford Universities; these were later published by the Hogarth Press .
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
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Occupation Anne Stevenson
During her adolescence music was even more important to AS than literature. She became a part-time cello teacher in England, and she played in a string orchestra affiliated with Cambridge University .
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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Material Conditions of Writing Elaine Feinstein
EF , who was a contemporary of Hughes as a Cambridge undergraduate and a friend in later years, was commissioned to write this book three weeks after Hughes's funeral in 1999. The Sunday Times serialised...
Material Conditions of Writing Helen Oyeyemi
The Icarus Girl was written while HO was studying for her A levels, and it was published while she was an undergraduate at Cambridge . She reports having sent just twenty pages to the editor...
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Elstob
This trip was apparently unsuccessful. Although very many subscriptions were sold at Cambridge , sufficient money eluded her, and the printing of the complete homilies broke off abruptly (in mid-sentence) at the end of the...
Material Conditions of Writing William Empson
WE began publishing his poetry as a Cambridge undergraduate during the years up to 1928 (as did others in the same group at the same time, including Kathleen Raine ). He edited and published his...
Literary Setting Elaine Feinstein
The protagonist, an academic Arabist like her father, is drawn back from modern Cambridge to medieval Toledo in Spain, and to a time when members of Christian, Judaic, and Islamic communities interacted freely. She...
Literary Setting Ouida
Often narrated by men, these stories are set in masculine preserves: Cambridge colleges, army mess halls, and clubs. The men featured in the stories exhibit idealised masculine characteristics.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research.
18: 242
One, for instance, is cool...
Literary Setting E. M. Hull
The action of EMH 's last desert romance, The Captive of Sahara (1931), takes place in Arabia, where Isma goes on an expedition with a female friend with whom she has studied at Cambridge
Literary Setting Margaret Drabble
The trilogy marks a return to MD 's old territory: the first book opens with a party, on New Year's Eve, 1979, which brings together three middle-aged women who were each considered exceptionally promising when...
Literary Setting P. D. James
The intricate plot takes Cordelia as an intrusive visitor to the university of Cambridge to investigate the apparent suicide of Mark, a likeable and unusually conscientious young man, son of the entrepreneurial scientist Sir Ronald...
Literary Setting Caroline Bowles
The Early Called, a story of early deaths from consumption, occupies two chapters. The first introduces Mrs Arden, a childless widow who cares for her niece and nephew, Herbert and Anna Ross, who were...

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