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Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Elstob | This trip was apparently unsuccessful. Although very many subscriptions were sold at Cambridge
, sufficient money eluded her, and the printing of the complete homilies broke off abruptly (in mid-sentence) at the end of the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Oyeyemi | |
Occupation | Gillian Allnutt | Sheba Feminist Publishers
, established in January 1980, is a small independent publisher that champions the work of marginalized UK women. This includes the writing of women who [haven't] been to Oxford
or Cambridge
... |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | Increasingly in demand as a public speaker, VW
lectured at the Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 471 |
Occupation | Mary Shelley | MS
supported herself and Percy Florence through her writing—novels and journalism—and editing. He, through her earnings, was educated at Harrow School
and Cambridge University
. She also supported her aging father
until his death in 1836. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995. 52-4 Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45. 10-11 |
Occupation | Anita Desai | AD
has held teaching positions at Smith College
(1987-88) and Mount Holyoke College
(1988-93) in the USA. She was a Fellow of Girton College
, 1986-88, and of Clare Hall
in 1989 and 1991, both... |
Occupation | Dora Russell | During this period, DR
's energies were centred significantly but not exclusively on her own family. In 1922 she helped her husband with his parliamentary campaign and began her critical work The Religion of the... |
Occupation | Anne Stevenson | During her adolescence music was even more important to AS
than literature. She became a part-time cello teacher in England, and she played in a string orchestra affiliated with Cambridge University
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 9: 468 |
Occupation | Josephine Butler | In 1868 JB
(as president of the organization
from 1867 until around 1871) presented its petition for the examination of women candidates for entrance to Cambridge University
. The petition was granted in 1869, and... |
Occupation | Gertrude Stein | GS
delivered lectures at Cambridge
and Oxford
Universities; these were later published by the Hogarth Press
. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975. 115-18 |
Occupation | Mary Somerville | MS
and her husband
, at the behest of a group of Cambridge's mathematical scholars impressed with her work on Laplace
, arrived at Cambridge University
for a week-long stay. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 91 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Carter | Edward Moore
's periodical The World mooted the extraordinary concept of EC
as principal of an Oxford
or Cambridge
college: this number may be by Hester Mulso Chapone
. The World. R. and J. Dodsley. 131: 790 |
Occupation | Jane Ellen Harrison | |
Occupation | Ruth Padel | |
Other Life Event | Charlotte Yonge | A subscription was raised at Winchester School to found a scholarship in honour of CY
, to take boys from the school on to Oxford
or Cambridge
. Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996. viii Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
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