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Occupation Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
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
Textual Production Elizabeth Griffith
Many of EG 's letters to Garrick survive on film among Papers of David Garrick at the Victoria and Albert Museum . A few of her holograph letters to other people are at Harvard .
Employer Seamus Heaney
From 1982 SH held an academic position at Harvard , where he taught for just one semester of the year. Two years into this arrangement Harvard appointed him Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. From...
Textual Production Julia Ward Howe
Unhappy in her marriage, JWH drafted a novel, the history of a strange being who is neither man nor woman, but lives sometimes as one, sometimes as the other. She made no move towards publishing...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
A contemporary note in the Harvard copy of The History of Miss Sommerville, published anonymously (as a Lady) in 1769, erroneously attributes it to Mrs Inchbauld. This, however, is too early a...
Cultural formation Sarah Orne Jewett
SOJ was attracted to the ritual of the Anglican service, and was confirmed as an Episcopalian, although when in South Berwick her family attended the Congregationalist church. However, the most profound religious influence on her...
Residence Fanny Kemble
Leaving on 1 August, she toured with her father to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
86-91
Scullion, Adrienne, editor. Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Century. J. M. Dent; C. E. Tuttle.
lxiv-lxv
She was a hit with Harvard students, and young women attempted to style their hair like hers.
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research.
177
Textual Production Fanny Kemble
FK 's papers are at the New York Public Library , the Harvard College Library, Butler Library at Columbia University , Boston Public Library , the British Library , and the Victoria and Albert Museum .
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research.
181
Reception Julia Kristeva
In the early twenty-first century JK continues to generate a continuous flow of critical comment. She claims a place in women's international literary history as a creator of paradigms applied to other texts. Heather Ingman
Occupation Q. D. Leavis
Q. D. and F. R. Leavis travelled to America, where they lectured at Cornell and Harvard .
Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth.
127
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
This volume contains four lectures given by the Leavises at Harvard and Cornell , three of which are by F. R. Leavis: Luddites? or, There is Only One Culture, Eliot 's Classical Standing...
Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
Fifty items relating to CL (mostly letters addressed to her) survive in the Houghton Library , Harvard University . This collection was discovered in 1964 but took some years to reach scholarly notice.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, pp. 317-44.
317, 320-1
Textual Production Margaret Minifie
MM published, anonymously and without her sister, Barford Abbey, A Novel, in a Series of Letters.
The English Short Title Catalogue records no surviving copy of the first edition, and only two copies (at...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
The editor of this second selection of Mitford's letters was Henry Chorley . Her Correspondence with Charles Boner and John Ruskin followed in 1914. R. Brimley Johnson published another selection of her letters in 1925...
Textual Production Toni Morrison
This book is a version of Morrison's Charles Eliot Norton lectures delivered at Harvard in 2016. It has a foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates .

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