Harvard University

Connections

Connections Author name Sort ascending Excerpt
Textual Production Hester Lynch Piozzi
HLP was a voluminous letter-writer all her life. Though scholarly estimates differ, there is no doubt that thousands of her letters survive. The first selection appeared in print in 1833. Many early editions, however, had...
Textual Production Hester Lynch Piozzi
Her poetic oeuvre consists of a core of longish serious poems, a verse drama, other theatre pieces and a large penumbra of occasional poems and jeux d'esprit. She worked in the ode, essay, epistle, pastoral...
Publishing Mrs F. C. Patrick
Since the title-page calls her a wife, the signature of the preface as An Officer's Widow
Patrick, Mrs F. C. More Ghosts!. William Lane.
1: xiii
seems to be metaphorical. Advertisements were placed for the work in February 1799. This novel (whose only...
Education Judith Sargent Murray
JSM 's early education, typical for her class and time, consisted of being taught to read, write, sew, and study her Congregational religion. Except for three months at writing school, all this took place at...
Travel Willa Muir
WM spent an academic year in the USA, where Edwin Muir was Charles Eliot Norton Professor for the year at Harvard University , at the invitation of the poet Archibald MacLeish .
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
282, 284
Textual Features Sarah Wentworth Morton
These poems include political subject-matter, for instance in the celebratory Ode to the President, On his visiting the Northern States. This addresses Washington as Columbia's guardian God,
Smith, Elihu Hubbard, editor. American Poems, Selected and Original. Collier and Buel.
180
who emulates and surpasses the military...
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 .
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 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 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 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...
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
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
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

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.