Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cambridge University
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Fanny Aikin Kortright | She had started putting my poems in shape for this volume some years earlier, while working in Bradford at her very first job as a governess. In later positions she continued to work at her... |
| Textual Production | A. E. Housman | AEH
delivered the annual Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge
, a critical study which was published the same year as The Name and Nature of Poetry. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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, 2000. 135 |
| 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, 1996. 367 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968. 522 |
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