HARRISON (Jane Ellen, 1850-1928, English Classical Scholar, Linguist and Anthropologist)

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Clarke, thanking her for an invitation and saying “that she is “so very sorry that I am engaged for that night. It would have been a great pleasure to me to see the lantern exhibition, as it is a question I am much interested in & I hear Mr Clarke is a great authority. I scarcely like to invite such severe criticism as yours would necessarily be but if you had time to look in at my - I fear very inferior - lantern show at S. Kensington, I should be greatly pleased. My slides are made by a semi-professional who devotes immense care to his work...”, 3 sides 8vo., 45d Colville Gardens, 29th December

Jane Harrison lectured on Classical Archaeology at Newnham, Cambridge, and wrote important works on Greek religion and ancient art and ritual. She has also been credited with being the first woman to obtain a post in England as a ‘career academic’. Harrison argued for women's suffrage but thought she would never want to vote herself. Ellen Wordsworth Crofts, later second wife of Sir Francis Darwin, was Jane Harrison's best friend from her student days at Newnham, and during the period from 1898 to her death in 1928.

Item Date:  1891

Stock No:  41882      £150

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