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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Atwood | MA
was married in Boston to James Polk
, whom she met while she was a graduate student at Harvard
. They separated in summer 1972. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 251 |
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... |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | Harold Pinter
wrote the script for a film with the same title based on the novel, which was released in 1990, directed by Volker Schlöndorff
and starring Natasha Richardson
, Fay Dunaway
, and Robert Duvall |
Textual Production | Mary Barber | |
Reception | Aphra Behn | 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... |
Employer | Elizabeth Bishop | After a six-month appointment at the University of Washington
in Seattle in 1966, EB
went on to teach on and off for years at Harvard
and briefly at New York University
. Astley, Neil. “Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography; Elizabeth Bishop: Chronology”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, pp. 175-00. 198, 199, 200 |
death | Elizabeth Bishop | The following day she was due to read her poems at Harvard
. Most of her expected audience knew of her death, and in a packed hall full of sorrow, a collection of her friends... |
Residence | Caroline Blackwood | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Mathilde Blind | Other important friends include Dr Louis Mond
, the American Moncure Conway
(who had lost a position at Harvard
for preaching against slavery), Richard Garnett
(who began calling her by her first name in 1870)... |
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... |
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 | Anne Bradstreet | As weary pilgrim is the only poem to survive in AB
's own handwriting. It is tipped in at the back of the small volume of Meditations that she gave her son Simon (now known... |
Textual Production | Anne Bradstreet | AB
left various brief prose pieces: To My Dear Children, a little spiritual autobiography in the mother's legacy tradition, in which she argues that God works by teaching through tribulation. She left a series... |
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 | 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... |