Reminiscences of a Student's Life - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jane Ellen Harrison, Daniel Mendelsohn (Foreword by)Series:McNally EditionsPublish date:2024-03-12Pages:104
Language:EnglishPublisher:McNally EditionsISBN-13:9781961341999ISBN-10:1961341999UPC:9781961341999Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Women, LGBTQ+Size:8.47 x 5.08 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCP9MGNCD2
Reminiscences of a Student's Life
The arch, witty, outspoken memoirs of the pioneering archaeologist and scholar Mary Beard has called "my hero." First published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1925, Jane Ellen Harrison's Reminiscences are the irreverent memoirs of a student who declared Victorian education "ingeniously useless," who blazed a trail for female scholars, and who changed the way we see the ancient world. Growing up...
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Language:EnglishPublisher:McNally EditionsISBN-13:9781961341999ISBN-10:1961341999UPC:9781961341999Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Women, LGBTQ+Size:8.47 x 5.08 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCP9MGNCD2
Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) was born and raised in Yorkshire, England, the daughter of a prosperous timber broker; her mother died soon after she was born. Educated at home as a child, Harrison enrolled in 1874 in the newly established Newnham College for women, at Cambridge University, where she later taught. In 1903 Harrison published her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, followed...
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