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Education Jo Shapcott
JS continued studying at several universities and in several countries for some years after this. At St Hilda's College, Oxford , she took another degree two years later, specialising in American literature. She attended Harvard University
Occupation Anne Sexton
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...
Textual Production Susanna Haswell Rowson
Two copies are known to survive, at the British Library and at Harvard . Critic Steven Epley assigns this poem to her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, though the English Short Title...
Textual Production Susanna Haswell Rowson
No surviving copy was known in 1933, but the Houghton Library at Harvard bought one in October 1996.
Vail, Robert William Glenroie. Susanna Haswell Rowson, the Author of Charlotte Temple: a bibliographical study. American Antiquarian Society.
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Jackson, J. R. de J. “Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry”. University of Toronto Libraries.
Textual Production J. K. Rowling
In 2008 JKR was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard University . The commencement address she gave on this occasion was printed in 2015 with lavish decorations under the title Very Good Lives; profits...
Travel Michèle Roberts
When in July 1986 he flew to Boston to take up a position at Harvard , she was supposed to follow him after staying long enough in Florence to oversee a total remodelling of his...
Travel Michèle Roberts
Nor did she enjoy living in Boston. She was lonely (her husband often away) and loathed living in an institution [Harvard ] . . . . having to be polite all the time...
Family and Intimate relationships Michèle Roberts
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Radagunda Roberts
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Richardson
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Adrienne Rich
At Hillel House, Harvard , AR married Alfred Conrad , an economist she met as an undergraduate.
O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, pp. Review 20 - 3.
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Reception Adrienne Rich
She received other honorary degrees from Wheaton College (1967), College of Wooster (1988), Harvard University (1990), and Swarthmore College (1992). However, the roster of her awards is punctuated with her critique of the established system...
Textual Production Frances Reynolds
A manuscript of this in the Hyde Collection (now at the Houghton Library , Harvard ) bears revisions by Samuel Johnson , in red ink which he told FR she could easily remove with water...
Textual Production Frances Reynolds
Hill wrote that he had revised as well as expanding the selections already published by Croker. He too, however, referred to FR 's work as a bundle of manuscripts rather than a finished account.
Hill, George Birkbeck, editor. Johnsonian Miscellanies. Clarendon Press.
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Textual Production Jane Porter
JP 's unpublished works at the Folger Library include poems, letters, and personal diaries. Other papers of hers are in the Huntington Library . Her brother 's manuscripts, at the University of Kansas and Caracas...

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