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Jane Ellen Harrison was a British classical scholar and linguist. With Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, Harrison is one of the founders of modern studies in Ancient Greek religion and mythology. She applied 19th-century archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of ancient Greek religion in ways that have become standard. She has also been credited with being the first woman to obtain a post…
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science · British classical scholar, linguist and feminist (1850–1928) · linguist · university teacher · essayist · mythographer · classical scholar · anthropologist · writer · art historian · scientist · suffragist · also Jane Ellen Harrison, Jane Harrison, J. E. Harrison, Harrison
Born 9 September 1850 · Died 15 April 1928 · Q437675
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s suffrage but thought she would never want to vote herself. She fell repeatedly, volubly and unsuccessfully in love. When Virginia Woolf gave the lecture that became A Room of One
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“s suffrage but thought she would never want to vote herself. Ellen Wordsworth Crofts, later second wife of Sir Francis Darwin, was Jane Harrison”
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The Guardian: ‘Clark Kent grew up’: Audley Harrison on fighting the system, Olympic gold and life after the ring
In her article "Out of the Closet and into the Field: Matriculture, the Lesbian Perspective, and Feminist Classics", discussed the neglect of Harrison by the academy, and tied that neglect to an unpopularity of lesbian p
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Published “Electron affinities of the first-row atoms revisited. Systematic basis sets and wave functions” in The Journal of Chemical Physics — cited 14,921 times.
Died 1928-04-15.
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“s suffrage but thought she would never want to vote herself. She fell repeatedly, volubly and unsuccessfully in love. When Virginia Woolf gave the lecture that became A Room of One”
Where she was able to publish her memoirs through Leonard and Virginia Woolf's press, The Hogarth Press
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And then moved to Paris to live with Mirrlees
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Her book Prolegomena on the Study of Greek Religion appeared
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And her position was renewed continuously until Harrison retired in 1922
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And DLitt from the University of Durham in 1897
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Began to publish in the periodical that Oscar Wilde was editing called The Woman's World on "The Pictures of Sappho"
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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 rep
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Continued her studies in the classics at Cambridge University's Newnham College
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Born 1850-09-09.
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