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Intertextuality and Influence Jane Ellen Harrison
Though her influence is not always explicitly acknowledged, JEH made a profound impact on twentieth-century classical scholarship. Her work colours studies not only by Gilbert Murray and Francis Cornford (discussed above), but also by E. R. Dodds
Education Jane Ellen Harrison
Encouraged by Mary Paley , one of Newnham College 's first students, JEH took and passed the Cambridge University Examination for Women. She finished as top candidate and received a scholarship from Newnham.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press.
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Wealth and Poverty Georgette Heyer
After her father's death, GH became financially responsible for her mother and her brothers. Under this pressure her output of fiction increased. She helped support Frank during his studies at Cambridge , and continued to...
Family and Intimate relationships Georgette Heyer
He was educated at private schools and at Cambridge University . In the twenty-first century he gave his mother's biographer Lidija Haas free access to her papers.
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head.
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Dixon, Jay. An Appreciation of Georgette Heyer. http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander%20files/dixon.htm.
Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 16, pp. 29-30.
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Education Selima Hill
SH received her BA in English from Cambridge University , after a course interrupted by illness, which therefore took longer than the norm.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol.
6
, pp. 39-40.
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British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Textual Production Susan Hill
SH built a novel, The Man in the Picture. A Ghost Story, around a picture of carnival revellers in Venice, familiar to her protagonist from its position hanging in the rooms of his...
Textual Production A. E. Housman
AEH delivered the annual Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge , a critical study which was published the same year as The Name and Nature of Poetry.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production A. E. Housman
AEH was also highly regarded as a literary critic. His inaugural lecture for what became the Kennedy Chair of Latin at Cambridge , given on 9 May 1911, was published in 1969 as The Confines...
Literary Setting E. M. Hull
The action of EMH 's last desert romance, The Captive of Sahara (1931), takes place in Arabia, where Isma goes on an expedition with a female friend with whom she has studied at Cambridge
Textual Production Violet Hunt
VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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Often writing in French, she used her diaries to record and explain her perceptions of daily events and experiences; her entries are sometimes rooted in fact but...
Education Kathleen E. Innes
Kathleen Royds (later Innes) received her Teacher's Diploma in Theory (Class I) and Practice, from Cambridge University.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
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Literary Setting P. D. James
The intricate plot takes Cordelia as an intrusive visitor to the university of Cambridge to investigate the apparent suicide of Mark, a likeable and unusually conscientious young man, son of the entrepreneurial scientist Sir Ronald...
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Jebb
AJ 's husband John Jebb resigned his Church of England preferments including his Cambridge lectureship.
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, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
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Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
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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, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
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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.
7
, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
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