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Literary Setting | Beatrice Harraden | The stories, not arranged chronologically, cover periods from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the middle ages. Named characters include William of Wykeham
(founder of Winchester College
and of New College, Oxford
), the pioneer... |
Reception | Anna Swanwick | In 1858 AS
became one of the first female members of the Royal Institution
. The Institution, founded in 1799, calls itself on its website the oldest independent research body in the world, and has... |
Residence | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
and Harold Nicolson bought Long Barn in the village of Weald in Kent (reputedly William Caxton
's birthplace) for £2,500; it was only a couple of miles from Knole. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 76 |
Textual Production | Harriet Taylor | In 1833 HT
contributed a chapter on the life of William Caxton
to Lives of Eminent Persons, a volume published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
. Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press, 1998. 237 |
Textual Production | Sara Maitland | This is the earliest text written in Latin and known to be by a woman: Perpetua's story or prison diary Newman, Barbara. “My Feet Are Cut Off”. London Review of Books, Vol. 31 , No. 23, 3 Dec. 2009, pp. 38-9. 38 |
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