Harrison, Niall. “Throwing Voices And Observing Transformations: An Interview With Helen Oyeyemi”. Strange Horizons.
Cambridge University
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Helen Oyeyemi | This is HO
's haunted house novel; she reports having been inspired by Shirley Jackson
's The Haunting of Hill House. |
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. |
Occupation | Ruth Padel | |
Textual Production | Katherine Parr | KP
wrote a letter to the Fellows of Cambridge University
, urging them to use our vulgar tonge. Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill. 206 |
Employer | Winsome Pinnock | In her late teens WP
planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Pix | MP
's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford
and Cambridge
universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School
in Buckingham... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | Aurelia Plath
attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly... |
Textual Features | Alexander Pope | The play is remarkable among its other fun for a minor characater, Phoebe Clinket, an unhinged woman poet. She was wrongly identified in Edward Parker
's Key as Anne Finch
, a mistake which has... |
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... |
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... |
Education | Lady Rachel Russell | Mary Berry
, who wrote that LRR
spent her youth in those occupations which it has been agreed to call the education of females, Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. x |
Textual Production | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library
and the Bodleian
have most of her publications. She was a Fellow... |
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. 52-4 Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45. 10-11 |
Textual Features | Ethel Sidgwick | Though she calls her work a memoir, ES
spends only twenty-six pages writing about Eleanor Sidgwick's childhood, and gives much of the text to the history of Newnham, before as well as during her aunt's... |
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... |
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