Harvard University

RR owned a miniature of Dr John Hawkesworth , and china which he had given her. She carefully preserved letters he had written to her (one of which survives at Harvard ) and papers connected...

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 .

MA was married in Boston to James Polk , whom she met while she was a graduate student at Harvard . They separated in summer 1972.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Since the title-page calls her a wife, the signature of the preface as An Officer's Widow seems to be metaphorical. Advertisements were placed for the work in February 1799. This novel (whose only...