Jane Ellen Harrison

Reminiscences of a Student's Life

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 66
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 104g
• ISBN-13: 9781025242842
• ISBN-10: 102524284X
• Artikelnr.: 76284524

Autorenporträt

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 in 1912 by Themis, works that synthesized new developments in archaeology and anthropology and helped revolutionize the study of ancient Greek civilization. A popular lecturer whose articles enjoyed a wide readership, Harrison retired from teaching in 1922 and spent her last years in Paris with her "spiritual daughter," the poet Hope Mirrlees.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
chapter i - Yorkshire Days
chapter ii - Cambridge and London
chapter iii - Greece and Russia
Conclusion

Rezensionen

"Jane Ellen Harrison, the maverick Cambridge classicist and celebrity public intellectual . . . cultivated a distinctive brand of quirky and memorable outspokenness . . . Reminiscences of a Student's Life [is] a tremendous read . . . She remains my hero . . . because she was so sharply aware of the stories women needed to be told about succeeding as a woman; and she was brilliant at telling them. She has remained the iron in my soul." Mary Beard London Review of Books