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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 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...
Occupation Anita Desai
AD has held teaching positions at Smith College (1987-88) and Mount Holyoke College (1988-93) in the USA. She was a Fellow of Girton College , 1986-88, and of Clare Hall in 1989 and 1991, both...
Occupation Dora Russell
During this period, DR 's energies were centred significantly but not exclusively on her own family. In 1922 she helped her husband with his parliamentary campaign and began her critical work The Religion of the...
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, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
9: 468
Occupation Josephine Butler
In 1868 JB (as president of the organization from 1867 until around 1871) presented its petition for the examination of women candidates for entrance to Cambridge University . The petition was granted in 1869, and...
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, 1975.
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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, 1983.
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Occupation Elizabeth Carter
Edward Moore 's periodical The World mooted the extraordinary concept of EC as principal of an Oxford or Cambridge college: this number may be by Hester Mulso Chapone .
The World. R. and J. Dodsley.
131: 790
Occupation Jane Ellen Harrison
JEH gave a series of lectures on one of her central interests, classical archaeology, at Cambridge 's Archaeology Lecture Room. This made her the first woman to lecture in the University's buildings.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001.
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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.
website
Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...
Occupation Gillian Allnutt
Sheba Feminist Publishers , established in January 1980, is a small independent publisher that champions the work of marginalized UK women. This includes the writing of women who [haven't] been to Oxford or Cambridge ...
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, 1996.
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Occupation Mary Shelley
MS supported herself and Percy Florence through her writing—novels and journalism—and editing. He, through her earnings, was educated at Harrow School and Cambridge University . She also supported her aging father until his death in 1836.
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995.
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Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45.
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Other Life Event Charlotte Yonge
A subscription was raised at Winchester School to found a scholarship in honour of CY , to take boys from the school on to Oxford or Cambridge .
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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