Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991.
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Smith College
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Sylvia Plath | |
| Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM
to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College
(through Caroline B. Dow |
| Employer | 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... |
| Employer | P. L. Travers | PLT
followed her writer-in-residence stint at Radcliffe College
with another year in the same position at Smith College
, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne, 1991. xii |
| Employer | Sylvia Plath | SP
took a position in the English Department at Smith College
in Northampton, Massachusetts, of which she was a graduate. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Simon and Schuster, 1987. 142 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | The English-born American playwright Kathleen Betsko
has acknowledged Wandor's inspiration as the motivator of research that she and Rachel Koenig
into the status and treatment of women dramatists in the USA. They found that... |
| Literary responses | Simone de Beauvoir | The first volume sold 22,000 copies in its first week. But the second volume, with its analysis of female sexuality, was violently attacked. Moi, Toril. “The Adulteress Wife”. London Review of Books, Vol. 32 , No. 3, 11 Feb. 2010, pp. 3-6. 3 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Sylvia Plath | Shortly after her spell on Mademoiselle came her breakdown and attempted suicide: both episodes which she wrote about in her novel The Bell Jar. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991. 53-6 |
| Reception | Edna St Vincent Millay | Renaissance (as it had been spelled before publication) did not win the five-hundred-dollar prize for the best poem of all; nor did it come second or third. But it received critical acclaim, and the judges'... |
| Reception | Amelia B. Edwards | ABE
was awarded two honorary degrees by US institutions: Smith College
(a women's institution) gave her in 1886 an Honorary LL.D (the first distinction of the kind ever bestowed on a woman), and... |
| Reception | Adrienne Rich | AR
received an honorary doctorate of letters from Smith College
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 74: 338-9 |
| Reception | Sarah Grand | At her death, SG
left all her manuscripts, copyrights, and published works to her step-granddaughter, Elizabeth Genevieve Bernadine Crawford Haldane McFall
, daughter of Haldane McFall
. Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983. 334-5, 100 |
| Textual Production | Adrienne Rich | In the same year as On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, 1979, AR
was invited to give the commencement address at Smith College
. |
Timeline
1836: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount...
Building item
1836
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
(later Mount Holyoke College) was founded at South Hadley, Maryland, by Mary Lyon
: the first post-secondary educational institution for women in the USA.
“Women and the Academy”. Higher Learning in America: History Department, Barnard College, Columbia University.
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