Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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... |
Cultural formation | Una Troubridge | Spiritualism, or the belief that the dead can contact the living through mediums, became wildly popular in England during the First World War, when the idea of death was all-pervasive. Troubridge and Hall first became... |
Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 12-13 |
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 |
Textual Features | George Bernard Shaw | Classicist Gilbert Murray
appeared as the character Cusins. Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama, 1890-1990. Cambridge University Press. 19 |
Instructor | Mary Renault | Her godmother Aunt Bertha lent her the funds to attend Oxford. She was greatly influenced by the lectures of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek, who lectured on Greek drama and had also founded... |
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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | Through correspondence RM
became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford
, and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union
. He was fifteen years her... |
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... |
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 |
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
,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Ellen Harrison | Apart from R. A. Neil
, to whom Hope Mirrlees said she was engaged, Harrison was particularly close, in an emotional although a non-sexual way, to some of her other scholarly colleagues, Gilbert Murray
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison |