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...
Education
Margaret Atwood
From 1957 she attended Victoria College
, University of Toronto
. Canadian publishing and the arts in Canada, broadly considered, had not yet recovered from the second world war. There were no cheap reprints of...
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Education
T. S. Eliot
After the private boys' school Smith Academy
in St Louis (founded by his grandfather) TSE
went on in fall 1906 to Harvard
(where the President was his cousin). He took his BA in literature and...
death
Elizabeth Bishop
The following day she was due to read her poems at Harvard
. Most of her expected audience knew of her death, and in a packed hall full of sorrow, a collection of her friends...
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...