qtd. in
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
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Cultural formation | Gertrude Stein | GS
was born in the United States to middle-class, Jewish parents who had emigrated from Germany. qtd. in Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975. 1-4 |
Education | Adrienne Rich | AR
studied at Radcliffe College
, where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa
society and graduated cum laude. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols. 13: 249 |
Education | Margaret Atwood | From 1957 she attended Victoria College
, University of Toronto
. Canadian publishing and the arts in Canada, broadly considered, had not yet recovered from the second world war. There were no cheap reprints of... |
Education | Ursula K. Le Guin | After four years at Radcliffe College
, Ursula Kroeber (later Le Guin)
graduated with a BA in Romance Languages, specializing in Renaissance French and Italian. Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House, 2011. 26 |
Education | Gertrude Stein | GS
was accepted into the Harvard Annex
(soon to become Radcliffe College; now Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard) as a special student. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975. 18 Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959. 26 |
Education | Gertrude Stein | GS
was admitted to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
on probationary status until she obtained her Bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College
. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975. 24 Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959. 35 |
Education | Gertrude Stein | In May 1898, after completing a Latin requirement, GS
graduated magna cum laude in philosophy from Radcliffe College
. She was now fully qualified for admission to Johns Hopkins
. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press, 1995. 43 |
Employer | Zadie Smith | As an undergraduate ZS
already hoped one day to make her living through the noble art of literature. Though she felt compelled to disguise her ambition with a joke, it came true with remarkable speed... |
Employer | Anne Sexton | In 1961 AS
began to get invitations to read or discuss her poetry: at Harvard
, Boston College
, and Cornell
. In the fall of 1961, she was appointed one of the first Radcliffe... |
Employer | Alice Walker | She supplemented her Radcliffe Institute
writing fellowship (worth $5,000, awarded for a year and extended for a second year) by teaching at Wellesley College
. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 218, 222, 225 |
Employer | P. L. Travers | PLT
had a year as writer-in-residence at Radcliffe College
, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne, 1991. xii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
's mother, Alice Marie (Davis) Lehmann
, was from New England (of true blue Puritan Mayflower stock) Tindall, Gillian. Rosamond Lehmann: An Appreciation. 1st ed., Chatto and Windus; Hogarth Press, 1985. 12 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gertrude Stein | GS
had had a flirtation with Leon Solomons
during her years at Radcliffe
, which remained [p]latonic because neither cared to do more. qtd. in Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press, 1995. 37 |
Friends, Associates | Tillie Olsen | TO
made many personal friendships with writers; Hannah Green
, who was fifteen years younger, acted as her mentor. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010. 198 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gertrude Stein | GS
's studies in psychology, philosophy, and medicine fiction left a deep imprint on her way of thinking and in her work. At Radcliffe College
she learned from William James
his philosophy of Pragmatism: I... |
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