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Occupation | Virginia Woolf | Increasingly in demand as a public speaker, VW
lectured at the Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 471 |
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. 91 |
Occupation | Ruth Padel | |
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. 115-18 |
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. 9: 468 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elaine Feinstein | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Oyeyemi | |
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 |
Literary Setting | E. M. Hull | |
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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