December 8, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsLetters and diaries of major artistic figures of the twentieth century illuminate Mary Hutchinson, but who was she? Learn about Mary Hutchinson, the woman who influenced the lives and works of writers T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and Samuel Beckett.
April 17, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, PhotographyDrawing parallels: Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill” and Julia Stephen’s “Notes from Sick Rooms” Quentin Bell’s biography of Virginia Woolf begins with a famous sentence: “Virginia Woolf was a Miss Stephen.” Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was an eminent critic and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography; his first wife was W. M. Thackeray’s daughter Minny. The second Mrs. Stephen, Woolf’s mother, was… read more
July 17, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingResearch at the Ransom Center: “Modernism and Christianity” Dr. Erik Tonning is Research Director of the “Modernism and Christianity” project at the University of Bergen, Norway. He visited the Ransom Center in June 2011 to view a range of its modernism holdings and to gather information on behalf of his research team from several of the Ransom Center’s… read more
