“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Sorbonne, University of Paris
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Education | Julia Kristeva | She also enrolled for doctoral work at the Sorbonne
in Paris, where she studied at Université de Paris VII
under Lévi-Strauss
, Tzvetan Todorov
, Roland Barthes
, and Lucien Goldmann
. She took her Ph.D. in 1973. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Education | Hélène Cixous | While working on her doctorate in 1963, HC
travelled to the United States to research James Joyce
's manuscripts for her doctoral thesis, and, in California,, she prepared a second thesis on |
Education | Jessie White Mario | She later studied at schools in Reading, and London. She favoured English poetry but her diligent studying was often overshadowed by her lack of discipline, personal disorderliness, and unruliness Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972. 21 |
Education | T. S. Eliot | After the private boys' school Smith Academy
in St Louis (founded by his grandfather) TSE
went on in fall 1906 to Harvard
(where the President was his cousin). He took his BA in literature and... |
Education | Julia O'Faolain | Meanwhile she studied abroad as well. She was awarded a summer scholarship for the University for Foreigners at Perugia, then studied at the University of Rome, 1952-3, and in Venice on an Italian... |
Education | Rose Tremain | Next RT
's mother sent her to another finishing school, this time in Paris and run by Roman Catholic nuns. By now she had the confidence to discharge herself and enroll instead on a course... |
Education | John Millington Synge | In 1898 he enrolled for a course on Irish and Homeric civilizations at the Sorbonne
in Paris. Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. ix - xxvi. xix |
Education | Luce Irigaray | LI
took her first degree (an MA in philosophy and literature) at the University of Louvain
in 1955. At this time, she wrote a thesis on the idea of purity in Paul Valéry
's work... |
Education | Sylvia Kantaris | Sylvia Mosley went to Lady Manners School in Bakewell and then took an Honours BA in French at Bristol University
in 1957. During her undergraduate course she also took a Diplome d'Etudes de Civilisation Française... |
Education | Anna Kingsford | AK
was admitted to the Sorbonne (the University of Paris) to study medicine, after she successfully passed an entrance exam in London. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers, 2006. 57 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Edward Maitland |
Education | Anna Kingsford | |
Employer | Hélène Cixous | With a secondary school teaching diploma in English, HC
began teaching in 1959, the year before she began working on her doctoral thesis, at the lycée (a selective secondary school which prepares for university entrance)... |
Employer | Hélène Cixous | HC
became professor of English Literature at the new university. The university soon distinguished itself by attracting an extremely high-quality faculty, though the French government never particularly appreciated its existence. HC
founded the Centre des Recherches en Etudes Féminines |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
met Jean-Paul Sartre
while both were preparing to write agrégation exams at the Sorbonne
in Paris. Brosman, Catharine Savage. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Twayne, 1991. 12 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Kingsford | They met after the successful publication that year of Maitland's novel By and By: an Historical Romance of the Future. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Edward Maitland |
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February 1869: Denied access to a degree in England because...
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Denied access to a degree in England because of her sex but with an apothecary's licence and considerable medical experience behind her, Elizabeth Garrett
began her medical degree at the Sorbonne
, Paris, from...
June 1870: Elizabeth Garrett graduated with a medical...
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June 1870
Elizabeth Garrett
graduated with a medical degree from the Sorbonne, having been unable to obtain one in England.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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By July 1955: Françoise Sagan, aged eighteen, repeated...
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By July 1955
Françoise Sagan
, aged eighteen, repeated in England the previous year's sensational success in France of her novel Bonjour Tristesse: the English version was by Irene Ash
.
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 1138
Corbett, Anne. “Françoise Sagan”. The Guardian, 27 Sept. 2004, p. 23.
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Chrisafis, Angelique. “Bonjour Françoise: France in thrall to Sagan”. The Guardian, 31 May 2008, p. 25.
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1974: African American activist Angela Davis published...
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1974
African American activist Angela Davis
published Angela Davis: An Autobiography.
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