Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hope Mirrlees | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
began a close academic and personal relationship with Cambridge
classical scholar R. A. Neil
. Her later companion Hope Mirrlees
suggested that at the time of Neil's death in 1901 these two were engaged. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 126-7, 141-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ali Smith | AS
met her longtime partner Sarah Wood
at Cambridge University in the 1980s Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, pp. 186-29. 196 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Macaulay | RM
's father
was appointed to a Lectureship in English at Cambridge University
, and the family moved to Great Shelford, four miles from Cambridge. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 96, 101 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins. 49 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Ellen Harrison | Classics lecturer JEH
met her student and later close companion, Hope Mirrlees
, at Newnham College
, Cambridge
. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 235 |
Family and Intimate relationships | A. S. Byatt | ASB
's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble
, was also a Cambridge
graduate. He began writing novels in his retirement. He died in 1982. ASB
grew up in an intellectual environment; her parents valued art... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Padel | When she returned to London from Crete after an intensive spell of literary work, RP
married Myles Burnyeat
, a Cambridge
professor of ancient philosophy. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Crown, Sarah. “A life in poetry: Ruth Padel”. The Guardian. |
Employer | Winsome Pinnock | In her late teens WP
planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as... |
Employer | Q. D. Leavis | |
Employer | Anita Brookner | AB
became the first woman Slade Professor of art at Cambridge University
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. 144 |
Employer | Elaine Feinstein | |
Education | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen Royds
(later Innes) received her Teacher's Diploma in Theory (Class I) and Practice, from Cambridge University. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 23-4, 244 |
Education | Susanna Centlivre | It was said that she read Molière
at twelve, and that she disguised herself as a boy in order to study at Cambridge University
. All this, however, belongs to a dubious area of fictionalisation... |
Education | Jane Ellen Harrison |
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