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Elizabeth Sewell (other)
Elizabeth Sewell may refer to: * Elizabeth Sewell (writer) (1919–2001), British-American critic, poet and novelist * Elizabeth Sewell (activist) (1940–1988), New Zealand activist * Elizabeth Anesta Sewell Elizabeth Anesta Sewell (1872 1959) was a Welsh-born writer under the pen-name Diana Lewes. Her memoir, ''A Year in Jamaica: Memoirs of a girl in Arcadia in 1889'', was published posthumously in 2013 by Eland. The memoir, a coming-of-age story ... (1872–1959), Welsh-born writer * Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906), English author of religious and educational texts {{hndis, Sewell, Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Sewell (writer)
Elizabeth Sewell (March 9, 1919 – January 12, 2001) was a British-American critic, poet, novelist, and professor who often wrote about the connections between science and literature. Among her published works were five books of criticism, four novels, three books of poetry, and many short stories, essays, and other work in periodicals in North America and Europe. Of her books, the most widely held by libraries is ''The Orphic Voice: Poetry and Natural History''. Sewell completed the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge University in 1942. From then to the end of World War II, she worked for the Ministry of Education in London before returning to Cambridge for a Master of Arts (1945) and a Ph.D. (1949) in modern languages. She first visited the United States in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1973. She taught at Vassar College, the University of Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Fordham University, Tougaloo College, and Hunter College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Sewell (activist)
Elizabeth Sewell (1940–1988) was a New Zealand activist in the feminist movement in the 1970s and 1980s. She was the first head of the Ministry for Consumer Affairs. Career Sewell was a manufacturing jeweller and feminist in Christchurch setting up the Pregnancy Advisory Service in 1974. She was instrumental in the creation and operation of the Christchurch office of Sisters Overseas Service (SOS), an organisation which supported women to travel to Sydney for abortions in the late 1970s. She supervised two paid employees and volunteers as well as handling publicity and counselling of women. She was one of the organisers of the 1977 United Women's Convention, moving to Wellington in 1979 to become a researcher and private secretary to the Member of Parliament Marilyn Waring. In the early 1980s she was National Executive Director of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) as well as being active in the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL). In 1986 she became the first Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Anesta Sewell
Elizabeth Anesta Sewell (1872 1959) was a Welsh-born writer under the pen-name Diana Lewes. Her memoir, ''A Year in Jamaica: Memoirs of a girl in Arcadia in 1889'', was published posthumously in 2013 by Eland. The memoir, a coming-of-age story set on a Jamaican sugar plantation called Arcadia, has received praise for its portrait of colonial Jamaica The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. Jamaica became a British colony from 1707 and a Crown colony in 1866. The Colony was pr .... References 1872 births 1959 deaths Welsh writers 20th-century English novelists {{Wales-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |