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Drawing on experience (performed at Tate Modern)
No full textCaroline Smith's homage to Bobby Baker’s 'Drawing on a Mother's Experience' (1988) involved the divulging of other people's eating secrets, spilling and smudging the ingredients of their anecdotes onto a canvas on the floor. The piece developed out of private conversations between members of the public and Smith's alter-ego Mertle, a fictional 1950s housewife in curlers who was stationed in a tent on the Tate green. Some spoke to Mertle as in a confessional, others gossiped or shared information on their life or the lives of others. Each secret shared was exchanged with a cake. By the end of the day Mertle had ingested numerous eating secrets which were then delivered (rather, regurgitated) in her performance. The canvas was marked with liver, flour, chocolate, eggs, milk and wine, but more importantly the candid and intimate details of our ambivalent relationship to food. For the finale, Mertle wrapped herself in the canvas, encasing herself with the remnants of our experiences.
Caroline Smith is a practicing artist, Principal Lecturer and a Teaching Fellow of Creative Writing, Journalism and Media Writing programmes at University of Greenwich [2012]
Caroline Gordon Collection
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EXTENT
Linear Feet: 2 linear feet
Number of Containers: 2 boxes
Series 1: Writings, 31 files
Series 2: Lectures, 19 files
Series 3: Courses, 10 files
Series 4: Book Reviews, 5 files
Series 5: About Caroline Gordon,8 files
Series 6: Correspondence, 18 files
Series 7: Books, 5 books
Series 8: Media: 9 digital files, 9 cassettes, 2 reelsCOLLECTION DETAILS
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BIOGRAPHICAL / Historical Note: Twentieth-century novelist Caroline Gordon was born into the Kentucky line of the extensive Meriwether family in 1895. Exploration of the family's past and its evolution is a major theme of her fiction. She grew up at Merry Mont in Todd County, near Clarksville where she received her early education. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethany College in 1916. Her father is the idealized subject of Gordon's second novel, Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), and the central character in her much-anthologized story, "Old Red." Gordon taught briefly; then, as a journalist, she became one of the first reviewers to comment favorably on a new Nashville-based magazine of poetry, The Fugitive. During the summer of 1924, Robert Penn Warren, a Todd County neighbor, introduced her to Allen Tate. Within a year they were married and living in New York City, where their daughter, Nancy Meriwether was born. With Tate, she began a period of life abroad, devoted to writing and sustained by various fellowships granted to one or the other. In London, Gordon was secretary to the influential British writer Ford Madox. In 1930 the Tates returned to the United States and settled in Clarksville in a house provided by Tate's brother Ben and called "Benfolly." Both Tates were exceptionally hospitable to friends and encouraging to younger writers. Both were prolific correspondents, generous with constructive criticism. (Gordon eventually became mentor to several writers, most notably Flannery O'Connor). Although she had to wrest time for her writing from domestic and social obligations, the eight Benfolly years were especially productive for Gordon, who published four novels and several stories before 1937. The first novel was Penhally (1931), followed by Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), None Shall Look Back (1937), and The Garden of Adonis (1937), studies of the southern family during the Civil War and Great Depression. Academic appointments of the 1940s took the Tates throughout the Southeast and to Princeton, where they established a home near their daughter, who married psychiatrist Percy Wood in 1944. During this time Gordon published her fifth novel, Green Centuries (1941). Her second related group of novels, The Woman on the Porch (1944), which deals with a troubled marriage, The Strange Children (1951), based on life at Benfolly, and The Malefactors (1956), is informed by her conversion to Roman Catholicism. She and her husband wrote The House of Fiction (1950), which was followed by Gordon's How to Read a Novel in 1957. Gordon lived in Princeton until 1973, teaching, and writing: The Glory of Hera (1972). An appointment in the creative writing program drew her to the University of Dallas (Gordon was 77 years old when she proposed the new creative writing program at UD). When her health began to fail in 1978, she moved to San Cristobal de las Casas in Chapas, Mexico, with her daughter and family. She died there on April 11, 1981.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION Caroline Gordon (1895-1981) was an American author. This collection consists of manuscripts of Gordon's work, including novels, lectures, and poetry during her time at the University of Dallas. It also includes correspondence with authors and family members, writings of others, and photographs.
Lectures and Commentary available here: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2548University of Dalla
Caroline Emelia Stephen
No full textExcerpt: Caroline Emelia Stephen, born on December 8, 1834, was notable for a number of reasons. Her connections were impressive: she was the unmarried daughter of Sir James Stephen (the noted Under-Secretary for the Colonies in 1836-1847), the sister of Leslie Stephen (author of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography), sister-in-law to Minny Thackeray Stephen and Anny Thackeray Ritchie (daughters of William Makepeace Thackeray), and aunt to Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Her grandfather, also Sir James Stephen, wrote the legislation that ended slavery in England. Known as a Quaker mystic, she is credited with bringing about the revival of the Society of Friends in the latter part of the nineteenth century through writings about her conversion
The Death Studies Podcast Ep 22 Dr Caroline Bennett
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This is an interview featured on The Death Studies Podcast. This interview is with Caroline Bennett. You can find out more about the guests and hear the full episode at
www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com or listen to the full episode wherever you find your podcasts.
Please cite as:
Bennett, C. (2023) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 June 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.23309723</p
Nine Months in One Day: A Visual Ethnography with Caroline and Elizabeth Fox-Anvick
No full textCaroline and Elizabeth Fox-Anvick, a same-sex couple residing in Bloomington, Illinois, have been married for sixteen years. Caroline and Elizabeth were the first same-sex couple to receive a foster care license in McLean County, through the Children’s Home and Aid agency. This agency began offering adoption services in 1883, and continues to help over 300 families each year (Adoption Services)
The Search for God: Virginia Woolf and Caroline Emelia Stephen
No full textAs a Modernist follower of radical individualism, Virginia Woolf is thought to be antipathetic to religious thought; Woolf’s own spirituality, however, is certainly more complicated than most critics have allowed, especially in light of the influence of her aunt, Caroline Emelia Stephen, a well-known Quaker mystic and writer who rejected the established church in favor of a less traditional version of Christianity. The intellectual relationship between niece and aunt has been little discussed; aside from Jane Marcus’s “The Niece of a Nun: Caroline Stephen and the Cloistered Imagination” and Alison Lewis’s “A Quaker Influence on Modern English Literature: Caroline Stephen and her Niece, Virginia Woolf,” few critics seem to have considered the implications of Stephen’s influence on Woolf’s works and ideas
May Fox
No full textEthel Mae Fox is pictured her junior year at Uintah High School. She was born to Charles Patton and Mary Caroline Fox on September 16, 1924. She married Cecil Everett Reese in 1946. She died May 18, 2001
Mae Fox
No full textEthel Mae Fox is pictured her junior year at Uintah High School. She was born to Charles Patton and Mary Caroline Fox on September 16, 1924. She married Cecil Everett Reese in 1946. She died May 18, 2001
Fox Hall Entrance
No full textFox Hall was named for Caroline A. Fox, a generous doner to the college. The women's dormitory was built in 1936
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