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Reception Jane Ellen Harrison
But this publication brought JEH much positive recognition as well. Shortly after its appearance, for instance, came the invitation, never before extended to a woman, to speak in the precincts of Cambridge University (in this...
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...
Reception Eleanor Anne Porden
EAP has remained little known in literary history, and in the history of exploration she has been displaced in public consciousness by her husband's second wife. However, this situation has begun to change. On 16...
Reception Simone de Beauvoir
SB 's many honours during her lifetime included the Sonning Prize for European Culture in 1983, and an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University . There is a Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University in...
Reception Iris Murdoch
Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University . Cambridge University awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford
Reception Virginia Woolf
After the Femina Vie Heureuse prize for To the Lighthouse, VW refused in principle to accept any honour from an institution. She declined to give the Clark Lectures at Cambridge University , as well...
Reception Mary Somerville
The review ridiculed the notion of popularizing advanced scientific works for the unwashed and criticized the publisher for believing a woman capable of such a learned enterprise.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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The Athenæum review was not alone in...
Reception Rose Macaulay
RM received an Honorary DLitt from Cambridge University ; the award was a major event in the last decade of her life.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
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Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne, 1969.
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Residence Ann Jebb
A year after John Jebb 's resignation from his Cambridge position, he and AJ moved to settle in Craven Street, London.
Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, 1787, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
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Residence Frances Burney
FB and her husband returned to France, leaving their son at Cambridge University (where he had opted to remain) and intending to settle.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
355
Residence Anne Stevenson
AS and her husband Mark Elvin sailed from the USA for England, where he was to take a job at Cambridge University and she was to devote herself to fulltime writing.
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984–2024, Numerous volumes.
9: 283
Residence Jane Ellen Harrison
Though still attached to Newnham College , Cambridge , JEH settled for some time in Paris with her former student Hope Mirrlees .
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Residence Jane Ellen Harrison
After leaving Cambridge permanently, scholar JEH settled in Paris with Hope Mirrlees , who had by now become known as a poet.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Residence Q. D. Leavis
Both Cambridge University and the city of Cambridge remained her primary home for the rest of her life.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
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