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  Jane Ellen Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jane Ellen Harrison was born in Yorkshire on 9 September 1850 and died in London on 15 April 1928.
She was the third daughter of Charles Harrison, a timber merchant with business interests in Russia, and Elizabeth, née Hawksley Nelson, who died soon after her birth.
Many of Harrison’s conclusions, relying as they did on shaky underpinnings of the latest theories of social scientists, proved ephemeral, but her approach forever changed the study of ancient Greek religion.
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 Jane Ellen Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jane Ellen Harrison (September 9, 1850–April 5, 1928) was a ground-breaking English classical scholar and feminist.
Harrison spent most of her professional life at Newnham, the progressive, recently-established college for women at Cambridge.
Jane Harrison by Theo van Rysselberghe at the NPG
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 Cambridge Ritualists
Harrison became a member of the college council in 1894; she came back into residence in 1898 and was appointed a staff lecturer in 1899 In 1900-1903, she was the first holder of an Associates’ Research Fellowship.
Harrison suggested the westernmost stairway between the north porch of the Erechtheum and the Propylaea, in Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens, 163.
Harrison was runner-up for the Yates Chair at UCL twice; "the brew of 'anthropological' rant and radicalism Harrison lent, pur, and lost her name to was making her the perfect candidate for round rejection by hordes of classical men.
web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/history/CambridgeRitualists.html   (9768 words)

  
 Knitting Circle Jane Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jane Harrison was Vice-President of the Hellenic Society from 1889 to 1896.
In 1922 Jane Harrison retired from lecturing and she and Hope Mirrlees moved to a house in Bloomsbury, London.
At some point, however, there was a 'terrific bust-up' and Harrison is later to be found angered by Strong and the 'unscrupulous way she used people to get on', while in the drafts of her autobiography Strong refers darkly to the kind of woman who applied 'the power of fascination...
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.06.14   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But it is also keenly committed to a psychoanalytic approach: for example, Harrison's early loss of her mother and supposed competition with her stepmother for her (emotionally rather remote) father's attentions are seen as the elements of a classic Oedipal situation.
Harrison's familiarity with current German scholarship generally, as can be seen in her major works, may have surpassed that of both F.M. Cornford and Gilbert Murray.
The role of gender bias in Harrison's failure to win the post is downplayed by both William M. Calder, "Jane Harrison's Failed Candidacies for the Yates Professorship (1888, 1896): What Did Her Colleagues Think of Her?" in The Cambridge Ritualists Reconsidered, ed.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-06-14.html   (2534 words)

  
 Harrison, Jane Ellen on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Her works include Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903), Themis (1912), Ancient Art and Ritual (1913), and Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1921).
Harrison High School THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION CLASS OF 2001: COBB
ELLEN'S MATE STIRS DEBATE IN HOLLYWOOD CASTING DOUBTS ERUPT OVER `VOLCANO' STAR'S DECISION TO COME OUT.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harrison applied current archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of Greek religion in ways that have become standard.
Her first monograph, in 1882, drew on the thesis that both Homer's Odyssey and motifs of the Greek vase-painters were drawing upon similar deep sources for mythology, the opinion that had not been common in earlier classical archaeology, that the repertory of vase-painters offereed some unusual commentaries on myth and ritual.
Her lectures on Greek art (given to prosperous, predominantly female audiences) were immensely popular in the 1880s, and her unorthodox fascination with pagan folk rituals often stirred up gossip.
www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Jane_Ellen_Harrison   (360 words)

  
 Newnham College Cambridge: Newnham Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For Woolf, Harrison was one of the first generation of British women to write non-fiction seriously.
Harrison was one of Newnham’s first students, returning to college (after a couple of simultaneously hardworking and glamorous decades in London) in 1898 and remaining almost until her death in 1928.
Harrison’s Greece was not the shining, calm, rational world of the familiar image.
www.newn.cam.ac.uk /about/bio_janeharrison.shtml   (240 words)

  
 OUP: Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison: Robinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Driven by the conviction that the study of primitive Greek culture was an intensely practical enterprise, addressing the fundamental emotional needs of all people, she set her academic research in the broader context of human life.
Although she was a powerful role model for academic women and addressed issues which were central to the women's movement, when it came to women's rights, her own views were not always in keeping with those of her suffragist contemporaries.
Harrison wrote not to champion any cause, but out of a passionate desire to share what she believed to be important and true.
www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-924233-X   (625 words)

  
 Harrison, J.Ellen: Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion.
Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature.
In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion.
Harrison is not afraid to look for relevance in archaic cult, and doesn't flinch on finding it.
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 Harvard University Press/The Invention of Jane Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion.
And she contrasts her story with that of Eugénie Sellers Strong, a younger contemporary and onetime intimate, the author of major work on Roman art and once a glittering figure at the British School in Rome--but who lost the race for renown.
The setting for the story of Harrison's career is Classical scholarship in this period--its internal arguments and allegiances and especially the influence of the anthropological strain most strikingly exemplified by Sir James Frazer.
www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/BEAINV.html   (247 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02.04.03
Yet the two booklength lives of Murray, the two of Harrison, and the one of Frazer have all been written by non-classicists, two of them by Americans and one by an Australian.
Further A. has identified the most detailed review of any book by Harrison written before 1896 to be by the most competent authority in England on the subject.
This becomes the most authoritative public evaluation of Harrison before her failed candidacies for the Yates Chair.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1991/02.04.03.html   (889 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Mythos Books)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Although partly out-of-date, Jane Harrison's analysis of 'neglected' aspects of Greek religion proves these aspects to be 'essential'.
Moreover, parts of it might be frustrating and tedious for readers without knowledge of the ancient Greek language, since Harrison is constantly engaged in the elucidiation and discussion of Greek religious terminology.
Even today (Professor Harrison died of leukemia in 1928) modern scholars and intellectuals such as Walter Burkert and Camille Paglia continue to draw on her magnificent work.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691015147?v=glance   (1991 words)

  
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Crucial for this view of the Greeks was J. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists, A. Cook, F. Cornford, Jane Harrison and Gilbert Murray.
Two chapters appeared in revised form: "Frazer on Myth and Ritual," JHI 36 (1975) 115-134 and the influential "Jane Ellen Harrison: The Early Work," GRBS 13 (1972) 209-230.
The exceptions were the Marxist, George Thomson, brother-in-law of Harrison's biographer, Jesse Stewart, and unexpectedly T. Webster: see esp.
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 The Invention of Jane Harrison:0674002121:Beard, Mary; Bowersock, G. W. :eCampus.com
A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman -- as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens.
And she contrasts her story with that of Eugenie Sellers Strong, a younger contemporary and onetime intimate, the author of major work on Roman art and once a glittering figure at the British School in Rome -- but who lost the race for renown.
The setting for the story of Harrison's career is Classical scholarship in this period -- its internal arguments and allegiances and especially the influence of the anthropological strain most strikingly exemplified by Sir James Frazer.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0674002121   (204 words)

  
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Calder, 'Cambridge Ritualists: An Annotated Bibliography of the Works by and about Jane Ellen Harrison, Gilbert Murray, Francis M. Cornford, and Arthur Bernard Cook' URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/bmcr/bmcr-v2n04-calder-cambridge 2.4.3, Shelley Arlen.
But their work is not negli-gible and has exerted considerable influence on subsequent research.
Some dozen unsigned reviews of major publications in the Spectator are now attributed to her on the basis of her unpublished correspondence with Lytton Strachey and the Cornford papers.
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 Find in a Library: Jane Ellen Harrison : the mask and the self
Find in a Library: Jane Ellen Harrison : the mask and the self
Jane Ellen Harrison : the mask and the self
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 Maika (1987) Virginia Woolf's Between the acts and Jane Harrison's conispiracy
Maika (1987) Virginia Woolf's Between the acts and Jane Harrison's conispiracy
Virginia Woolf's Between the acts and Jane Harrison's conispiracy
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 Macurdy Scholarship
She was in her late thirties when she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1903, and she began almost immediately to deliver papers and publish articles, despite a heavy teaching schedule that included teaching Greek at Columbia University in the summers.
Her early work reflects the influence of the Cambridge ritualists, led by British classicists Jane Ellen Harrison of Cambridge and Gilbert Murray of Oxford, with whom she developed a lifelong friendship.
Her researches led her not only into the depths of the library of the British Museum, but also on adventurous treks through Greece and the Balkans.
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 Amazon.com: Books: The Others: How Animals Made Us Human   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
CAPs: North America, Jane Ellen Harrison, Old Testament, Great Mother, Mary Midgley (more)
THE HUMAN MIND is the result of a long series of interactions with other animals.
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 Powell's Books - The Invention of Jane Harrison by Mary Beard
Powell's Books - The Invention of Jane Harrison by Mary Beard
A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman--as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of OneUs Own, she claims to have glimpsed HarrisonUs ghost in the college gardens.
A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman--as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in
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 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 90024338   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 90024338
Publisher description for Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion / Jane Ellen Harrison.
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
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 Mythology: Further Reading
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, and Themis, Jane Ellen Harrison An accomplished classicist, Harrison founded "The Cambridge School" of classical scholarship which brought to bear sophisticated historical and ethnographic tools to the exploration of Greek religion and literature.
From Ritual to Romance, Jesse Weston, One of Harrison’s brightest students at Cambridge applied her methodology to the Arthurian Grail legends.
The gave T. Elliot the framework for his masterpiece, The Wasteland.
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 rogueclassicism: Jane Ellen Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Not sure how long this one will last...
MK sent in a notice (thanks) that the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 'Biography of the Week' is none other than Jane Ellen Harrison, the author of Themis (among other things).
Posted by david meadows on Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 5:02 AM Comment on this post @ Classics Central
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 Triangle Journals
'For the Love of an Idea': Jane Ellen Harrison, heretic and humanist
Jane Ellen Harrison, British classicist at the turn of the century, was a pioneering scholar in her field, one of the first to apply new anthropological and psychological theories to the study of ancient Greek culture.
It was not only her scholarship that angered her critics; Harrison's feminism, pacifism, and atheism made her a particular target for the outrage of conservative male colleagues.
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 ... 'Ancient Art and Ritual' by Jane Ellen Harrison - at Loanspage.co.uk books for Loans.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
'Ancient Art and Ritual' by Jane Ellen Harrison - at Loanspage.co.uk books for Loans.
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Book summary: author Jane Ellen Harrison, January, 1998 - R A Kessinger Publishing Co (Paperback, 156459596X)
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