Papers, 1817-1987.

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898

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Best known for her leadership (1879-1898) of the influential Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Willard also supported and often spearheaded a wide variety of social reforms, including woman suffrage, economic equality, and fair labor laws. Willard gained an international reputation through her speeches and publications. She was the first woman to be honored with a statue in the U.S Capitol building, and her Evanston home was one of the first house museums to in the country. ...

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

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Russell was an English logician and philosopher. Marsh edited Russell's Logic and knowledge: essays 1901-1950 and wrote about Russell. From the guide to the Letters to Robert C. (Robert Charles) Marsh, 1950-1959., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Russell, British philosopher and mathematician and the 3rd Earl Russell. From the description of [Letter, 19]44 Dec. 8, Trinity College, Cambridge [to] Dear Sir / Bertrand Russell. (Smith C...

Strachey, Ray, 1887-1940

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Smith, Hannah Whitall, 1832-1911

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Religious leader and author. Hannah Whitall Smith preached and wrote on religious subjects and became involved in the temperance and suffrage movements. When her daughter Mary married English barrister Frank Costelloe in 1888, Hannah, her husband Robert and their children, Alys and Logan, joined Mary in England. Alys married philosopher Bertrand Russell and worked for women's rights as well as other political issues. When Mary's marriage failed soon after the birth of th...

Stephen, Adrian

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Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935

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Stephen, Karin

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Costelloe, Frank, 1855-1899.

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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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Virginia Woolf (b. January 25, 1882, London, England–d. March 28, 1941, Ouse, River, Englnad) was a noted novelist and is now viewed as a pioneer of feminist literature. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, comprised of English artists, philosophers, and writers in the early twentieth century. She was also a co-founder and operator (along with husband Leonard Woolf) of Hogarth Press. Though she received little formal education, her father, a writer and editor with strong ...

Smith, Robert Pearsall, 1827-1898

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Clergyman. From the description of Robert Pearsall Smith note, 1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980492 ...

Strachey, Barbara, 1912-

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Russell, Alys Whitall Pearsall, -1951

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Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946

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Logan Pearsall Smith, the British essayist, was actually born in Millville, New Jersey into a family of Quakers. Smith studied in England,became a British resident, and spent his life writing about English writers. From the description of Constable Correspondence, 1917-1943. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122491162 American essayist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : London, to Belle da Costa Greene, 1943 Aug. 14-1943 Aug....

Scott, Geoffrey, 1885-1929

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Strachey, Julia Frances, 1901-1979

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Berenson, Mary, 1864-1945

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Bernard Berenson, art historian and critic, was born in Lithuania in 1865. His family moved to Boston, Mass. in 1875 where he was enrolled in the Boston Latin School. He then attended Boston University for one year, and graduated from Harvard College in 1887. Encouraged by Isabella Stewart Gardner and others, Berenson travelled to Europe to study art, although with the original intention of becoming a writer. Mary Berenson was born a Quaker in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1864, the d...

Somerset, Henry, Lady, 1851-1921

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Strachey, Oliver, 1874-1960.

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Bussy, Dorothy

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Epithet: née Strachey wife of S Bussy British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x00023d ...

Strachey, Alix, 1892-1973

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Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928

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Jane Ellen Harrison was born on 9 September 1850 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, the third daughter of Charles Harrison, timber merchant, and his wife Elizabeth Hawksley Nelson, who died of puerperal fever within a month of Jane's birth. She was educated at home by a succession of governesses until at the age of 17 she was sent to Cheltenham Ladies College to complete her education, gaining a First Class Certificate in 1869. After leaving Cheltenham in 1870, Jane Harrison returned home to her family t...