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politics Emily Davies
The College applied for incorporation as an Association under the Board of Trade in order to establish its legal existence. The document drawn up by the College's Committee professed the College's affiliation with both the...
politics Virginia Woolf
VW refused to deliver the Clark lecture series at Cambridge University , thereby also declining to succeed her father, scholar Leslie Stephen , in this honour.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
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Author summary Q. D. Leavis
In her socio-anthropological critical monographs and essays, QDL evaluates literature by examining it in the context of the culture from which it emerges. She focuses on intellectual, social, and moral elements of literary work, and...
Publishing Ann Jebb
The Whitehall Evening Post carried a contribution from AJ advocating annual examinations at Cambridge (an issue over which her husband resigned).
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
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, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
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Publishing Maggie Gee
MG was chosen for publication in the Cambridge University magazine Granta in 1983, and has contributed to The Guardian, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Mslexia, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday...
Publishing Rosalind Coward
RC first published in Granta and Broadsheet, student periodicals at Cambridge .
Publishing Mary Masters
She had been writing and gathering the material here for at least ten years. The volume was printed for the Author, and dedicated to Lord Burlington (who subscribed for eight copies). Its publication was...
Publishing Elizabeth Hands
The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed . It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...
Publishing Mary Davys
MD 's draft of The Reform'd Coquet circulated before publication among Cambridge undergraduates, who suggested improvements.
Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix.
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Publishing Rosamond Lehmann
From the age of eight RL spent whole mornings writing (verse dramas, epics, lyrics and narrative poems,
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
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as well as sketches and novellas). But later she cast them on the flames as...
Publishing Jane Barker
The material in the volume was later revised as the third part of the Magdalen Manuscript. The publisher advertised the volume in December 1687, using JB 's name. This is the only instance of his...
Publishing Zadie Smith
ZS placed a story, The Waiter's Wife, in Granta, Cambridge University 's literary magazine and a venue for many young writers who later became widely known. She continued to publish in Granta after this.
Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Smith, Zadie. “Granta 67. Zadie Smith. The Waiter’s Wife”. Granta.
Publishing Virginia Woolf
VW published Women and Fiction (from her two lectures given at the women's colleges at Cambridge ) in Forum (New York).
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
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Reception Q. D. Leavis
However, an early and strongly condemnatory review appeared from F. L. Lucas of King's College . Lucas argued that QDL 's élitist, ineffective scholarship idealized both pre-industrial literacy and contemporary highbrow culture. To inform one's...
Reception Jane Ellen Harrison
JEH received some praise for her vivid writing, but was attacked for what critics saw as her comparative ignorance of philology and etymology and weakness in her evidence. In what her biographer Annabel Robinson identifies...

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