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Jane Ellen Harrison
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Standard Name: Harrison, Jane Ellen
Birth Name: Jane Ellen Harrison
Classics scholar JEH
devoted much of her career to radically unorthodox studies of the development of ritual and religion in early Greek culture. Her findings, issuing in both monographs and articles, were highly publicized and often controversial during her own time, but fell into neglect before receiving sharply increased attention from the late 1980s forward. As recent studies have demonstrated, it is difficult to overestimate the impact of Harrison's work on her specific scholarly field (Greek ritual, art, and myth), on women in academia, or on a range of creative writers. She also published a personal memoir.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Instructor | Mary Agnes Hamilton | During her studies at Cambridge, MAH
met Lady Burne-Jones
, who read to her from the letters of her husband Edward Burne-Jones
and of William Morris
as well as the poetry of Morris
. She... |
| Instructor | Hope Mirrlees | HM
studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge
, under the charismatic scholar Jane Harrison
. Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press, 2000. 132-5 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Quin | Taking place in an unidentified Mediterranean country with growing political repression, the novel concerns a couple, a man and a woman, the latter of whom is searching for her possibly dead brother. Passages was AQ |
| Literary responses | Hope Mirrlees | But it has generally been read with less attention to its abstract meaning, as a covert treatment of the possible lesbian relationship between the author and Jane Harrison
. Virginia Woolf
had read it by... |
| Literary responses | Hope Mirrlees | Julia Briggs
reads the text as a roman à clef in which Scudéry
is an unflattering portrait of Natalie Barney
(whom HM
would have encountered when herself living in Paris) while Harrison
appears as the... |
| Occupation | Frances Cornford | Because the play was staged out of term, women were able to participate. Jane Harrison
(who knew Frances well, and had been an intimate friend of her mother) recruited several women from Newnham College
as... |
| Occupation | Virginia Woolf | The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 371-3 |
| politics | Marie Belloc Lowndes | The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith
's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country... |
| politics | May Sinclair | Unlike many suffragists, MS
was a decided supporter of the war. With three other women (Jane Ellen Harrison
, Flora Annie Steel
, and Mary Augusta Ward
) she signed the Authors' Declaration to... |
| Author summary | Hope Mirrlees | Much of the sparse information currently available on HM
focuses on her lasting personal relationship with eminent scholar Jane Harrison
rather than her own body of writing, which includes poetry, novels, and biographies (published and... |
| Reception | Laura Riding | Miranda Seymour
(who has published a life of Graves and a novel based on an incident in his life and Riding's) does not believe this story of indebtedness, Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 191-5. 192 |
| Textual Features | Mary Butts | This essay explores the disintegration of religion in the Western world, not a change in practice, but in sensibility. A moral temperature, not a protest, but an indifference. Butts, Mary. Traps for Unbelievers. Desmond Harmsworth, 1932. 6 |
| Textual Production | Nan Shepherd | After her retirement from teaching in 1956, while editing the Aberdeen University Review, NS
contributed to it articles on such literary figures as Hugh McDiarmid
and Agnes Mure Mackenzie
, and on the history... |
| Textual Production | Hope Mirrlees | HM
worked all through her later years on a biography of Jane Harrison
. She never completed it, partly from indecision as to how much of Harrison's private life to reveal. The text is now... |
| Textual Production | Hope Mirrlees | Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
's Hogarth Press
published a translation from seventeenth-century Russian by Jane Harrison
and HM
, The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum
by Himself. Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson, 1986. 25 |
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