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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 | 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 | 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. |
Friends, Associates | Freya Stark | After her long recovery, FS
continued to enjoy her popularity in London society. Sir Sydney Cockerell
, director of Cambridge
's Fitzwilliam Museum
, became a friend. She was introduced to Virginia Woolf
, Rose Macaulay |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Piecing together its intellectual family tree, scholars and critics have looked both forward and back from Bloomsbury. It has been seen as descending from the late eighteenth-century Clapham Sect
(to which VW
's great-grandfather James Stephen |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | Despite his lack of scholastic success WMT
was popular socially, and his wide circle of friends at Cambridge included Alfred Tennyson
, Edward FitzGerald
, and John Allen
. His brief time at university
also... |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | While at Newnham College
, EFB
began her acquaintance with Charlotte Mary Martin
, later Charlotte Wilson
, a forceful young bluestocking with a similar growing dissatisfaction about the political beliefs that she was exposed... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth von Arnim | At Nassenheide, her home in Germany, EA
employed the first of a series of Cambridge
tutors for her children, who famously included future writers E. M. Forster
and Hugh Walpole
. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 96, 102, 120 |
Friends, Associates | Elaine Feinstein | At Cambridge
she met a lot of very interesting Jews who were very Zionistic or left-wing or kinds of things like that. Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press. 186-7 |
Friends, Associates | May Sinclair | In the same period she made two important philosophical friendships: with Anthony Deane
, then a curate, and Henry Melvill Gwatkin
, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge
. Both wanted to bring her back... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Thoby Stephen
, VW
's brother, started Thursday Evenings at 46 Gordon Square, mainly so that he could keep in touch with his Cambridge University
friends. These gatherings marked the beginning of what came... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | While woolgathering for her upcoming Women and Fiction lectures at Cambridge
, VW
met with Jane Ellen Harrison
for the last time; in her diary she described her as very aged & rather exalted. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press. 3: 175-6 |
Friends, Associates | E. M. Forster | EMF
went up to study at King's College
, Cambridge
. While there, he became a member of the Apostles, and met several future member of the Bloomsbury Group, including J. M. Keynes
, Thoby Stephen |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | Harrison was always engaged in debates with her colleagues at Cambridge
and elsewhere: her writing here was inspired in part by Gilbert Murray
's unorthodox translation of Euripides
' Hippolytus, published in 1902. Both... |
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