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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 | |
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. 43 |
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. 842n116 |
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. 350-2 |
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 | |
Textual Production | Mary Stockdale | |
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. 149 |
Travel | Zadie Smith | |
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... |