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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.
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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 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.
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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
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 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 Pam Gems
The Royal Shakespeare Company included the play in their regional tour, after which it transferred to the Globe Theatre in London. Harvard University holds a video-recording of a performance of this play in Hebrew.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Toni Morrison
This book is a version of Morrison's Charles Eliot Norton lectures delivered at Harvard in 2016. It has a foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates .
Textual Production Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Harvard 's Houghton Library has a number of significant manuscripts by MEB including notebooks as well as novels. The extensive collection of her printed titles and manuscripts owned by Robert Lee Wolff of Harvard University
Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY 's surviving letters are mostly at the British Library , Harvard University , and Princeton University .
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
PG 's next novel, The History of Miss Sommerville, published as a Lady, has not been widely attributed to her; someone ascribed it to Mrs Inchbauld (which the date makes impossible) in the...
Textual Production Frances Brooke
Harvard University holds the manuscript of a pastoral, a farce, letters. In 2011 Harvard reported that it had digitized twenty-four letters from her to Richard Gifford (plus letters from Gifford to Brooke, and songs in...
Textual Production J. K. Rowling
In 2008 JKR was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard University . The commencement address she gave on this occasion was printed in 2015 with lavish decorations under the title Very Good Lives; profits...
Textual Production Lady Eleanor Butler
LEB and Sarah Ponsonby wrote some of their voluminous correspondence jointly. Writing was one of their major pleasures; they selected paper with loving care, and kept an equally careful tally of replies received and of...
Textual Production Susanna Haswell Rowson
Two copies are known to survive, at the British Library and at Harvard . Critic Steven Epley assigns this poem to her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, though the English Short Title...

Timeline

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

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28 October 1636

Harvard College was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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).

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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 .

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.