Gilbert Murray

Standard Name: Murray, Gilbert

Connections

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Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
After her husband recovered from his head injury and went back to the war, NM (pregnant with her first child) became a convert to the League of Nations Society . She set out to further...
Textual Production Susan Tweedsmuir
In July 1946 there appeared ST 's first edited volume of her late husband's work: The Clearing House, a Survey of One Man's Mind: A Selection from the Writings of John Buchan, with a...
Textual Features George Bernard Shaw
Classicist Gilbert Murray appeared as the character Cusins.
Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama, 1890-1990. Cambridge University Press.
19
Textual Features Jane Ellen Harrison
Departing from studies of the vegetation spirit undertaken by such scholars as J. G. Frazer and Wilhelm Mannhardt , Harrison argues for the significance of the year spirit as the embodiment not of the formal...
Reception Jane Ellen Harrison
Six months after JEH 's death, she was commemorated at the inaugural Jane Harrison Lecture, delivered by her colleague and friend Gilbert Murray at Newnham College , Cambridge, where Harrison had studied and taught.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press.
13-14
politics Dorothy Wellesley
Her fellow signatories included Violet Bonham Carter , Stafford Cripps , archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans , historian H. A. L. Fisher , scientist-philosopher Julian Huxley , sculptor Laura Knight , writers Edith Lyttelton and J. B. Priestley
Performance of text Florence Farr
As well as writing for the stage, FF composed music for it, notably for Harley Granville-Barker 's production of Gilbert Murray 's translation of Hippolytus by Euripides , which was performed in May 1902. She...
Occupation Florence Farr
FF composed the music and led the chorus for Harley Granville-Barker 's production of Euripides ' Hippolytus, translated by Gilbert Murray and performed at the Court Theatre .
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe.
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Occupation Christopher St John
CSJ had performed at a private party as a child, cross-dressed, by singing a comic popular song. As Christabel Marshall she had performed with the Stage Society at the Garrick Theatre in London in Gilbert Murray
Occupation Florence Farr
The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF put on many such readings, performing works by Homer , Shelley , Yeats , Lady Gregory ...
Occupation Jane Ellen Harrison
While highly innovative and thus sometimes controversial, JEH 's work was supported, as well as challenged, by a wide range of scholarly and critical sources. At Cambridge, she collaborated with colleagues including William Ridgeway ,...
Literary responses H. D.
T. S. Eliot wrote that HD's versions of these choruses were allowing for errors and even occasional omissions of difficult passages, much nearer to both Greek and English than those of the then renowned scholar...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Ellen Harrison
Though her influence is not always explicitly acknowledged, JEH made a profound impact on twentieth-century classical scholarship. Her work colours studies not only by Gilbert Murray and Francis Cornford (discussed above), but also by E. R. Dodds
Intertextuality and Influence Violet Hunt
VH was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt 's...
Intertextuality and Influence Eleanor Rathbone
This work was an extension of a declaration released by the press on 31 January 1937. In that declaration, signatories including the Duchess of Atholl , Winston Churchill , David Lloyd George , Robert Cecil

Timeline

5 October 1942: Gilbert Murray helped found the Oxford Committee...

Building item

5 October 1942

Gilbert Murray helped found the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief , better-known as Oxfam.

Texts

Wells, H. G., and James Francis Horrabin. The Outline of History. Editors Barker, Ernest et al., George Newnes, 1919.