Harvard University

MR 's first husband was a traditionalist in marriage who did none of the household work himself. She felt like an accessory to his career. She travelled to Harvard to tell him that the marriage...

At Hillel House, Harvard , AR married Alfred Conrad , an economist she met as an undergraduate.

Her father, Timothy Fuller , was also a teacher, then a lawyer and politician. A graduate of Harvard University , he served in both the Massachusetts senate and house of representatives, and he became a...

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.

Her brother Convers Francis, six years older, influenced her education through his love of books. He later became a clergyman and held a professorship of theology at Harvard College .

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)...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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...