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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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politics Emily Davies
Despite her commitment to equal standards of education, ED felt that the artificial separation of boys and girls during earlier education made it impossible to have integrated university lectures and thought it wisest to situate...
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 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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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 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 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 Rosalind Coward
RC first published in Granta and Broadsheet, student periodicals at Cambridge .
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...
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...

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