Harvard University

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Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY 's surviving letters are mostly at the British Library , Harvard University , and Princeton University .
Textual Production Eudora Welty
EW published a memoir entitled One Writer's Beginnings, which she based on three lectures delivered at Harvard in April 1983.
New York Times. New York Times Company.
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Welty, Eudora. One Writer’s Beginnings. Harvard University Press.
Acknowledgements
Family and Intimate relationships Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis married James Warren , a gentleman farmer who had been at Harvard with her brother James, and who, in due course, became a patriot and a politician.
Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press.
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Education Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy was never sent away to school, though she acquired such scholarly knowledge that she helped tutor James (who was older than she) for entrance to Harvard .
Textual Production Elizabeth Tollet
Her authorship of this volume was first revealed in a note in Roger Lonsdale 's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets in 1989.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
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Three copies are known to survive, at the British Library , Yale University ...
Performance of text Dylan Thomas
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.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press.
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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...
Family and Intimate relationships Tabitha Tenney
The marriage was childless. Samuel Tenney was a Harvard graduate and throughout his life a man of intellectual interests. He practised medicine in Exeter both before and after the war, was a delegate to the...
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 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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Residence Anne Stevenson
Then came a spell back in the USA while Mark held an appointment at Harvard . They lived in a poor area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where their apartment was repeatedly broken into, and their...
Material Conditions of Writing Anne Stevenson
Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press .
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press.
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She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...
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...
Employer Zadie Smith
As an undergraduate ZS already hoped one day to make her living through the noble art of literature. Though she felt compelled to disguise her ambition with a joke, it came true with remarkable speed...
Literary Setting Gillian Slovo
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...

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.