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Travel T. S. Eliot
TSE sailed from Southampton for Montreal en route for his Charles Eliot Norton professorship at Harvard ; it was his first visit back to the USA for seventeen years.
Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984.
192-4
Travel Zadie Smith
ZS visited the USA (New York) in April 2000 in connection with the publication of White Teeth, and was back there (Cambridge, Massachusetts, for her appointment at Harvard ) in 2002-3. She...
Travel Willa Muir
WM spent an academic year in the USA, where Edwin Muir was Charles Eliot Norton Professor for the year at Harvard University , at the invitation of the poet Archibald MacLeish .
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968.
282, 284
Travel Michèle Roberts
When in July 1986 he flew to Boston to take up a position at Harvard , she was supposed to follow him after staying long enough in Florence to oversee a total remodelling of his...
Travel Angela Thirkell
She hated New York (a nasty, paltry . . . negligeable place) but loved Boston (where her old-fashioned hostess, Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton , seemed to her a wonderful remnant of the Flowering...
Travel Michèle Roberts
Nor did she enjoy living in Boston. She was lonely (her husband often away) and loathed living in an institution [Harvard ] . . . . having to be polite all the time...
Textual Production Mary Barber
The Bodleian copy is Vet. A 4 f. 438 (9). Harvard has recently acquired a copy of an otherwise unknown Dublin edition with a different title: A True Tale to be Added to Mr. Gay's...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
A contemporary note in the Harvard copy of The History of Miss Sommerville, published anonymously (as a Lady) in 1769, erroneously attributes it to Mrs Inchbauld. This, however, is too early a...
Textual Production Leah Sumbel
Harvard has some Wells papers contained in a volume of letters and clippings; but only a couple of items in the eight-volume catalogue are listed as by LS .
Textual Production T. S. Eliot
TSE 's Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley, a revised version of his Harvard doctoral dissertation of 1916, appeared, edited and corrected by Anne Bolgan .
Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Rev. and extended ed., Harcourt, Brace, 1969.
99-100
Textual Production Mary Stockdale
She gave her name as Miss Stockdale. The only known surviving copy is at Yale , apart from one bound into MS 's Miscellaneous poems (Harvard ). In this copy MS altered the name Isabel to Isabella.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Fanny Kemble
FK 's papers are at the New York Public Library , the Harvard College Library, Butler Library at Columbia University , Boston Public Library , the British Library , and the Victoria and Albert Museum .
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research, 1984.
181
Textual Production Frances Reynolds
A manuscript of this in the Hyde Collection (now at the Houghton Library , Harvard ) bears revisions by Samuel Johnson , in red ink which he told FR she could easily remove with water...
Textual Production Frances Reynolds
Hill wrote that he had revised as well as expanding the selections already published by Croker. He too, however, referred to FR 's work as a bundle of manuscripts rather than a finished account.
Hill, George Birkbeck, editor. Johnsonian Miscellanies. Clarendon Press, 1897, 2 vols.
1: xi
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
She dedicated it to her patron Lady Hertford . The British Library copy is 12604 ccc. 7. Harvard University holds the only known copy of an undated set of subscription proposals, which is headed Any...

Timeline

28 October 1636: Harvard College was founded in Cambridge,...

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28 October 1636

Harvard College was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Channing, Edward. A History of the United States. Macmillan, 1905–1932, 6 vols.
1: 433

1643: Ann Radcliffe (no relation of the later novelist)...

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1643

Ann Radcliffe (no relation of the later novelist) founded the first scholarship at Harvard College in Newtown in Massachusetts, New England (which had begun as a seminary in 1636).
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
141

1847: The Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University...

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1847

The Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University refused to admit Harriot Hunt .
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
29

November 1850: Harriot Hunt was formally accepted into the...

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November 1850

Harriot Hunt was formally accepted into the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
34

1894: The Harvard Annex (a women's section attached...

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1894

The Harvard Annex (a women's section attached to a male seat of learning, Harvard ) received its charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Radcliffe College , an institution for women.
“Significant Dates in Radcliffe’s History”. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study: Harvard University: About the Institute.

1926-1927: A Harvard University African expedition led...

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1926-1927

A Harvard University African expedition led by Dr Richard P. Strong studied tropical diseases in the Belgian Congo and conducted a medical survey of Liberia.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 594

4 February 2004: Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin launched...

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4 February 2004

Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin launched a social-media site called The Facebook for students at Harvard University . It was originally released as FaceMash , a website to determine the attractiveness of female students.
Horton, Alex. “Channeling ‘The Social Network,’ lawmaker grills Zuckerberg on his notorious beginnings”. The Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018.
Horton, Alex. “Channeling ‘The Social Network,’ lawmaker grills Zuckerberg on his notorious beginnings”. The Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018.

By 26 April 2006: A novel issued in March in the USA, How Opal...

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By 26 April 2006

A novel issued in March in the USA, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, was withdrawn after the author, Kaavya Viswanathan , admitted unconscious plagiarism from Megan McCafferty .
Goldenberg, Suzanne. “Star young author admits ’unconscious’ plagiarism”. Guardian Unlimited, 26 Apr. 2006.

11 February 2007: Drew Gilpin Faust, historian of the Civil...

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11 February 2007

Drew Gilpin Faust , historian of the Civil War and the American South, and dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study , was appointed the first female president of Harvard University .
“Harvard names Drew G. Faust as its 28th president”. Harvard University Gazette, 11 Feb. 2007.
“Harvard names first female president”. CBC News, 11 Feb. 2007.
Ferguson, Charles. “Heist Part 2”. The Guardian, 22 May 2012, pp. G2: 10 - 11.
G2: 10-11

Texts

Berglund, Lisa. “’The Notion that there is Sex in Words’: Johnson, Piozzi, and Gendered Lexicography”. Johnson at 300. A Houghton Library Symposium, Harvard University.
Schellenberg, Betty. “Manuscript Culture and Women as Patrons of Samuel Johnson”. Johnson at 300. A Houghton Library Symposium, Harvard University.