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...
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...
Textual Production
Mary Barber
The Bodleian
copy is Vet. A 4 f. 438 (9). Harvard
has recently acquired a copy of an otherwise unknown Dublin edition with a different title: A True Tale to be Added to Mr. Gay's...
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.
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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...