Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Annabel Robinson
Standard Name: Robinson, Annabel
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Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | Though JEH
came to rebel against her stepmother's staunchly Evangelical outlook, her thinking was nevertheless shaped by her early church experiences. Following attendance at Sunday services, she and her sisters were instructed to copy out... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Ellen Harrison | |
Literary responses | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
received some praise for her vivid writing, but was attacked for what critics saw as her comparative ignorance of philology and etymology and weakness in her evidence. In what her biographer Annabel Robinson
identifies... |
Literary responses | Jane Ellen Harrison | The text received negative reviews; critics again attacked Harrison's use of philology and ethnology, for instance. A more recent critic, Annabel Robinson
in 2002, also finds many shortcomings, arguing, for instance that Harrison uses her... |
Literary responses | Jane Ellen Harrison | Recent critics, notably Mary Beard
and Annabel Robinson
, have considered the extent to which Harrison and several of her friends and colleagues built a myth of almost impregnable achievement and influence around her life's... |
Publishing | Jane Ellen Harrison | Harrison was initially displeased with Rivingtons
, her publisher, for printing the book under her full name: wanting her reputation to stand or fall on its own merits, she had expected it to appear under... |
Textual Features | Jane Ellen Harrison | Remarkable among the contents is Homo Sum, Being a Letter to an Anti-Suffragist from an Anthropologist (the first two words of whose title are quoted from a famous pronouncement by the Roman dramatist Terence
:... |
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