is not an attempt to arrogate man's prerogative of manhood it is not even an attempt to assert and emphasize women's privilege of womanhood it is simply the demand that in the life of woman, as in the life of man, space and liberty shall be found for a thing bigger than either manhood or womanhood – for humanity. In responding to an anti-suffragist critic, Harrison demonstrates this moderate ideology: Rather than support women's suffrage by protesting, Harrison applied her scholarship in anthropology to defend women's right to vote. Harrison was, at least ideologically, a moderate suffragist. Pamphlet title page from "Homo Sum" Being a Letter to an Anti-Suffragist from an Anthropologist by Jane E. She is now buried in St Marylebone Cemetery, East Finchley. She lived three more years, to the age of 77, and died at her house in Bloomsbury. She and Mirrlees returned to London in 1925 where she was able to publish her memoirs through Leonard and Virginia Woolf's press, The Hogarth Press. Harrison retired from Newnham in 1922 and then moved to Paris to live with Mirrlees. She then made a new friendship with Hope Mirrlees, whom she referred to as her "spiritual daughter". Harrison became close to Francis MacDonald Cornford (1874–1943), and when he married in 1909 she became extremely upset. In 1903 her book Prolegomena on the Study of Greek Religion appeared. Harrison became the central figure of the group known as the Cambridge Ritualists. Neil, but he died suddenly of appendicitis in 1901 before they could marry. Harrison was then engaged to marry the scholar R. These two major works caused Harrison to be awarded honorary degrees from the universities of Durham (1897) and Aberdeen (1895). In 1888 Harrison began to publish in the periodical that Oscar Wilde was editing called The Woman's World on "The Pictures of Sappho." Harrison also ended up translating Mythologie figurée de la Grèce (1883) by Maxime Collignon as well as providing personal commentary to selections of Pausanias, Mythology & Monuments of Ancient Athens by Margaret Verrall in the same year. Harrison then suffered a severe depression and started to study the more primitive areas of Greek art in an attempt to cure herself. MacColl, who supposedly asked her to marry him and she declined. Her early book The Odyssey in Art and Literature then appeared in 1882. Klein introduced her to Wilhelm Dörpfeld who invited her to participate in his archaeological tours in Greece. She travelled to Italy and Germany, where she met the scholar from Prague, Wilhelm Klein. Her lectures became widely popular and 1,600 people ended up attending her Glasgow lecture on Athenian gravestones. Harrison then supported herself lecturing at the museum and at schools (mostly private boy's schools). īetween 18 Harrison studied Greek art and archaeology at the British Museum under Sir Charles Newton. the first woman in England to become an academic, in the fully professional sense – an ambitious, full-time, salaried, university researcher and lecturer'. At Newnham, one of her students was Eugenie Sellers, the writer and poet, with whom she lived in England and later in Paris and had a relationship with as her partner. Harrison spent most of her professional life at Newnham College, the progressive, recently established college for women at Cambridge. Her governesses taught her German, Latin, Ancient Greek and Hebrew, but she later expanded her knowledge to about sixteen languages, including Russian. Her mother died of puerperal fever shortly after she was born and she was educated by a series of governesses. Harrison was born in Cottingham, Yorkshire on 9 September 1850 to Charles and Elizabeth Harrison. 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. Harrison argued for women's suffrage but thought she would never want to vote herself. She has also been credited with being the first woman to obtain a post in England as a ‘career academic’. She applied 19th-century archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of ancient Greek religion in ways that have become standard. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, of modern studies in Ancient Greek religion and mythology. Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850 – 15 April 1928) was a British classical scholar and linguist. Two honorary doctorates, an LLD from University of Aberdeen in 1895 and DLitt from the University of Durham in 1897. One of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology Cheltenham Ladies' College Newnham College, Cambridge
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