Columbia University

Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld and her brother , Ann Jebb , the future Amelia Opie , Anna Maria Porter , Mary Wollstonecraft and her sister, Mary Hays and her sister, a Mrs Spence who...

EW 's time in New York City was educational not only academically but also in broadening her cultural horizons. As a middle-class white in America's Deep South she had grown up among people whose outlook...

The earliest dream of NES was to be a dancer, but studying music needed a piano, which was too expensive. She therefore turned, she said, to books and reading. She did not want to be...

Carson preferred to study not music but creative writing. She enrolled in courses at Columbia before she lost all her money, and later studied also at New York University . One of her...

After this she attended the University of Wisconsin , majoring in English Literature and studying under Ricardo Quintana . She obtained a bachelor of arts degree in 1929. Next, with encouragement from her father...

HO reports having been bullied at school in England. She attended the Catholic-run Cardinal Vaughn Memorial School and later Corpus Christi College , Cambridge, where she studied Political Science and Social Sciences. Before this...

Ursula Kroeber (later Le Guin) followed her BA with an MA from Columbia University , New York, and headed to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship to work on a PhD on the French poet...

In addition to Columbia and the City University of New York , AR taught at numerous American universities throughout her career.

When the second world war began, MM worked to get the USA into it. From the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she worked in Washington, DC, as an administrator for the...

After her MA she embarked on an academic career, teaching English literature and creative writing. She worked at Texas Southern University from 1955 to 1957, then from 1957 to 1964 at her own alma mater,...

She worked with Sollers on Tel Quel (an avant-garde little magazine which became notorious for its support for Maoism), whose editorial board she joined in 1971. In New York, in 1976, she became a Permanent...

HC became professor of English Literature at the new university. The university soon distinguished itself by attracting an extremely high-quality faculty, though the French government never particularly appreciated its existence. HC founded the Centre des Recherches en Etudes Féminines

EW returned home to Jackson, Mississippi, immediately following her last spring term at Columbia . Her father , only fifty-two, had terminal cancer. He was diagnosed with leukemia—at that date, 1931, mostly unknown and...

AJV 's father, John Vardill , was born in the American colonies in 1749 and educated at King's College , New York (the forerunner of Columbia University). In 1773 he became Professor of Natural Law...

JS finally married Adolf Kurt Placzek , by then a librarian at Columbia University in New York, her lover of nearly a decade, whom she had met during his refugee days in England.