Harvard University

Leaving on 1 August, she toured with her father to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington. She was a hit with Harvard students, and young women attempted to style their hair like hers.

Before they were married Blackwood and Lowell lived (in domestic squalor) on the top floor of the London house she had bought in 1970: 80 Redcliffe Square in Chelsea. Meanwhile Israel Citkowitz (now beginning...

The maverick Victorian bibliographer Richard Herne Shepherd did some work on AB . In 1871 publisher John Pearson issued in six volumes The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn, reprinted...

In the early twenty-first century JK continues to generate a continuous flow of critical comment. She claims a place in women's international literary history as a creator of paradigms applied to other texts. Heather Ingman

She received other honorary degrees from Wheaton College (1967), College of Wooster (1988), Harvard University (1990), and Swarthmore College (1992). However, the roster of her awards is punctuated with her critique of the established system...

The full title is A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters, In three Books, Composed of Prayers and Meditations, fitted for, severall times, and upon severall occasions, As also severall Prayers for each day in the...

Since the title-page calls her a wife, the signature of the preface as An Officer's Widow seems to be metaphorical. Advertisements were placed for the work in February 1799. This novel (whose only...

Notwithstanding the fact that Johnson's 1955 edition became the standard form of the poems, the challenge of representing ED 's letter-poems in their multiple manuscript versions along with their varied transmission and publication history is...

DT 's Under Milk Wood had its first reading, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard . The script was still unfinished. Thomas himself took the role of narrator.

RWE studied theology at Harvard but eventually left the priesthood when he came to doubt the sacraments. He travelled to Europe and met Carlyle , Coleridge , and Wordsworth . Upon his return to America...

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...

She was licensed to act in January; her only recorded performances (in a double bill of tragedy and comedy) were given on 22 February. A print from a portrait of her, now in the Harvard

Q. D. and F. R. Leavis travelled to America, where they lectured at Cornell and Harvard .

Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press . She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...

The epigraph is a statement about truth from Shakespeare 's Henry IV Part One. The protagonist of this novel, Sarah Barcant, was born in Smitsrivier, a dusty little South African town dominated by its...