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There are also Mirrlees' and Stewart's own letters from Harrison, their manuscripts and drafts for potential biographies, and all the papers and letters they collected by or about Harrison from friends, colleagues and relations. Included are letters from Harrison to Frances Cornford, Ruth Darwin, DS MacColl, and Prince Dimitri Mirsky. Letters from other Russians can be found in Hope Mirrlees papers. There is the manuscript of 'Mythology: Our Debt to and Rome', lecture notes and flyers, an annotated copy of 'Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens' and many off-prints. Few photographs exist, but Harrison's lantern slide collection that she used in lectures is represented by 220 glass slides. There are other materials sent to the College by former students of Harrison as well as contributions from current scholars. (Jane Harrison destroyed her own papers and letters in 1922 when she left Cambridge to live in Paris.) Administrative / Biographical History. Jane Ellen Harrison was born on 9 September 1850 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, the third daughter of Charles Harrison, timber merchant, and his wife Elizabeth Hawksley Nelson, who died of puerperal fever within a month of Jane's birth. She was educated at home by a succession of governesses until at the age of 17 she was sent to Cheltenham Ladies College to complete her education, gaining a First Class Certificate in 1869. After leaving Cheltenham in 1870, Jane Harrison returned home to her family to teach her younger siblings. In 1874 she passed the Cambridge University Examination for Women and won a scholarship to Newnham College, just three years after it was founded. In the Classical Tripos examinations of 1879 she was placed in the second class, and thus failed to get the College lectureship in that she had hoped for. From 1879 on for almost 20 years she was based in London where she studied archaeology under Sir Charles Newton at the , and did a great deal of travelling, visiting archaeological sites in Greece, and museums throughout Europe. She also lectured on Greek art. In 1882 she published 'Myths of the in Art and Literature', followed in 1885 by 'Introductory Studies in Greek Art', which grew out of her lectures at the British Museum. After returning from a tour of Greece and Turkey with DS MacColl in 1888, she began work on a commentary to Margaret Verrall's new translation of the first book of Pausanias, 'on Attica'. This resulted in 'Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens' in 1890. In collaboration with MacColl, 'Greek Vase Paintings' was published in 1894. As her reputation as a classical scholar grew, Jane Harrison received honorary degrees from the Universities of Aberdeen (LLD) and Durham (D.Litt) in 1895 and 1897 respectively. In 1898 Jane Harrison returned to Cambridge as lecturer in classical archaeology at Newnham College and then became the College's first Research Fellow; her position on the staff of Newnham was renewed continuously until her retirement in 1922. Harrison's research now centred on the history of Greek religion, in which she frequently collaborated with Gilbert Murray, Francis Cornford and to a lesser extent, AB Cook. Her two most important publications were 'Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion', 1903, and 'Themis, a Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion', 1912. The First World War changed forever the scholarly lives and interests of Jane Harrison and her group. In 1915 she published a collection of pamphlets and lectures written between 1909 and 1914 'Alpha and Omega', several of which were autobiographical. That same year, whilst visiting her heart specialist in Paris, she enrolled in a course of Russian at the nearby Ecole des Langes Orientales. , literature and refugees now became the focus of her energies; she taught Russian for three years at Newnham after the end of the war. 'Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion', 1921, which summed up her two major works, was her last book on the history of Greek religion. In 1922, at the age of seventy-two, she retired from Newnham, burnt all her papers and letters, dispersed her library, and moved to Paris to live with her former student and companion, Hope Mirrlees (born 1887). Together they continued to study Russian and published translations from Russian works: 'The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum' (1924) and 'The Book of the Bear' (1926). Harrison also wrote a memoir, 'Reminiscences of a Student's Life', published in 1925. As her health continued to deteriorate, they moved back to England, in 1926. She died of leukaemia at home in London on 15 April 1928. Arrangement. The papers have been divided into 6 series, with subseries and files, each of which has a detailed description of its contents. (This catalogue covers only series and subseries levels; a full catalogue is available at Newnham College Archives). All the letters from Harrison to Gilbert and Mary Murray, Hope Mirrlees, and Jessie Stewart, together with those to others that Mirrlees and Stewart collected, have been made into Series 1. Series 2 contains manuscript material of Harrison, proofs, and an annotated copy of "Mythology and Monuments". (Printed items can also be found in Hope Mirrlees Papers and Jessie Stewart Papers.) The few photographs of Harrison are in Series 3, together with the glass slide collection that she used in lectures. Hope Mirrlees Papers, Series 4, consist of the materials she obtained on Harrison and her own writings on her life, as do those of Jessie Stewart, Series 5, including correspondence with Mirrlees. Series 6, Additional Papers, are writings on Harrison donated by current scholars. Jane Harrison rarely dated her letters. In most case dates have been added either from internal evidence or personal knowledge by Jessie Stewart and/or Hope Mirrlees. Many still remain without dates, but are in the chronological order that Stewart and Mirrlees imposed. Harrison often took Newnham College stationery with her when travelling, or picked up stationery from her hosts' houses, so it should not be assumed that the address on the letters was where she actually was when writing. Harrison frequently signed her letters JEH: this abbreviation has been used throughout the catalogue to refer to her, as have GM (Gilbert Murray), MM (Mary Murray), HM (Hope Mirrlees), JS (Jessie Stewart). Access Information. For access to the Collection, contact the College Archivist, Newnham College, Cambridge. Acquisition Information. The papers of Jessie Stewart (nee Crum) on Jane Harrison, including the letters from Harrison to Gilbert and Mary Murray, were donated to the College by her in 1964. Additional Stewart material, mostly concerning "JEH: A Portrait from Letters", were donated by her daughter, Jean Pace, in 1992. Hope Mirrlees donated all the papers she had collected on Harrison, including her own attempts at a biography, in 1973. In 1991 Christopher Cornford donated the letters from JEH to his mother, Frances Cornford (nee Darwin). Other Finding Aids. Online finding aid via JANUS. Archivist's Note. Collection description by Catherine Burke, Genesis Project Officer; edited and updated by Patricia Ackerman, Project Archivist, Newnham College 2002. Submitted to the Archives Hub as part of Genesis 2009 Project. Conditions Governing Use. limited photocopying is permitted within the terms of copyright legislation, although copying of some items including fragile material is at the discretion of the College Archivist. Reminiscences of a Student's Life by Jane Ellen Harrison. From and To can't be the same language. That page is already in . Something went wrong. Check the webpage URL and try again. Sorry, that page did not respond in a timely manner. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Something went wrong, please try again. Try using the Translator for the Microsoft Edge extension instead. Jane Ellen Harrison. Jane Ellen Harrison (September 9, 1850–April 5, 1928) was a ground-breaking British classical scholar, linguist and feminist. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and , of modern studies in . She applied 19th century archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of Greek religion in ways that have become standard. Contents. Personal life. Harrison was born in Yorkshire, England and first received tutelage under family governesses in subjects such as the many languages Harrison learned: initially German, , Greek and Hebrew, later expanded to about sixteen languages, including Russian. Harrison spent most of her professional life at Newnham, the progressive, recently established college for women at Cambridge. She knew Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Pater, and moved in the group, with (who was one of Harrison's close friends and looked to her as a mentor), Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell and Roger Fry. With Gilbert Murray, F. M. Cornford, and A. B. Cook, she was inspired to apply and ethnography to the study of classical art and ritual. Harrison and this later group of people have become known as Cambridge Ritualists. . Harrison was, at least ideologically, a moderate suffragette of the early feminist movement. Rather than support women's by protesting, Harrison applied her scholarship in anthropology to defend women's right to vote. In responding to an anti-suffragist critic, Harrison demonstrates this moderate : "[The Women's Movement] 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." (84-85, Alpha and Omega ) To this end, Harrison's motto was 's homo sum; humani nihil mihi alienum est ("I am a human being; nothing that is human do I account alien.") Scholarship. Harrison began formal study at Cheltenham Ladies' College, where she gained a Certificate, and, in 1874, continued her studies in the classics at Cambridge University's Newnham College. Her early work earned Harrison two honorary doctorates, an LLD from in 1895 and DLitt from Durham College in 1897. This recognition afforded Harrison the opportunity to return to Newnham College as a lecturer in 1898, and her position was renewed continuously until Harrison retired in 1922. Early Work. In her time, Harrison was renowned for her public lectures on Greek art and for her unconventional and outspoken views. Her lectures on Greek art, usually given to wealthy, predominantly female audiences, were immensely popular in the 1880s, and her unorthodox fascination with pagan folk rituals often stirred up gossip. [ citation needed ] Harrison was emancipated intellectually by a reading of David Friedrich Strauss's historical criticism of the life of Jesus, and 's Mutterrecht (1861), the seminal analysis of in antiquity. [ citation needed ] Harrison's first monograph, in 1882, drew on the thesis that both '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 . Her approach in her great work, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903), [1] was to proceed from the ritual to the myth it inspired.: "In theology facts are harder to seek, truth more difficult to formulate than in ritual." (p 163). Thus she began her book with analyses of the best- known of the Athenian ferstivals: Anthesteria, harvest festivals Thargelia, Kallynteria, Plynteria, and the women's festivals, in which she detected many primitive survivals, , Arrophoria, Skirophoria, Stenia and Haloa. Cultural Evolution (or ) Harrison alluded to and commented on the cultural applications of 's work. Harrison and her generation depended upon anthropologist (who was himself influenced by Darwin and evolutionary ideas) for some new themes of cultural evolution, especially his 1871 work, Primitive Culture: researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom . After a socially Darwinian analysis of the origins of religion, Harrison admitted that religions are anti-intellectual and dogmatic, yet she defended the cultural necessity of religion. In her essay The Influence of Darwinism on the Study of Religion (circa 1915), Harrison concluded: "Every dogma religion has hitherto produced is probably false, but for all that the religious or mystical spirit may be the only way of apprehending some things, and these of enormous importance. It may also be that the contents of this mystical apprehension cannot be put into language without being falsified and misstated, that they have rather to be felt and lived than uttered and intellectually analyzed; yet they are somehow true and necessary to life." (177, Alpha and Omega ) Later life. World War I marked a deep break in Harrison's life. Harrison never visited Italy or Greece after the war, she mostly wrote revisions or synopses of previous publishings, and pacifist leanings isolated her. Upon retiring (in 1922), Harrison briefly lived in Paris, but she returned to London when her health began to fail. Notes. ↑ "Once or twice in a generation a work of scholarship will alter an intellectual landscape so profoundly, that everyone is required to re-examine normally unexamined assumptions," Robert Ackerman begins his Introduction to the Princeton University Press reprint, 1991. Bibliography. Greek Topics. Books on the anthropological search for the origins of Greek religion and mythology, include: Ancient art and ritual – letters of Jane Ellen Harrison. One of our recent visitors to Special Collections was undertaking research on the classical scholar, Jane Ellen Harrison, (1850 – 1928) and this inspired me to delve into the interesting correspondence by Jane Harrison and her circle of friends which we have within our collections here. Jane Ellen Harrison, distinguished classical scholar, linguist, pacifist, feminist, described by as “the first female career academic” was born in Cottingham in Yorkshire in 1850. Sadly, her mother died soon after her birth and Harrison was brought up and educated by a series of governesses. She was an extraordinarily gifted pupil with a particular aptitude for languages, becoming proficient in Latin, ancient Greek and German by the age of seventeen. She continued her education at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, before being admitted to Newnham College, Cambridge, the then recently established college for women, in 1874, where she continued her studies in Classics. Between 1880-1897 Harrison studied Greek art and archaeology at the British Museum under the tutelage of Sir Charles Newton, Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, which subsequently enabled her to support herself financially as a freelance lecturer at the museum and elsewhere. Harrison was a “larger than life” character, with an extrovert and rather dramatic personality, and this, combined with her highly original and stylish dress-sense and infectious enthusiasm for her subject, made her an enormously popular and successful lecturer: indeed, she apparently claimed that around 1600 people attended a lecture she gave in Glasgow on the subject of ancient Athenian gravestones! Harrison was also a keen traveller, and whilst touring in Europe, she met the archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld with whom she later visited Greece. Following this, she published her book “ The Odyssey in Art and Literature ” (1882). Other travels with Dörpfeld followed. She also befriended the scholar and art critic D.S. (Dugald Sutherland) MacColl (1859-1948). Their early association was inauspicious: after attending one of Harrison’s lectures, MacColl was extremely critical, attacking her “second-hand” and “wrong” ideas on art, as well as her melodramatic style of lecturing. Harrison was deeply wounded and gave up lecturing for about a year, but later wrote MacColl a heartfelt letter telling him of her distress ( now at MS MacColl H157), but admitting that she agreed with his evaluation of her work, that he had been right, and that she had now adopted a new approach and style of presentation. Extract from Ms MacColl H157. The friendship grew, and MacColl became an important influence in her life, collaborating with her on her book “ Greek Vase Paintings “, and apparently asking her to marry him, although she decided against it. During this period Harrison suffered a severe depression, and immersed herself in studying primitive Greek art and mythology in the hope that the challenge of pioneering research would assist her recovery. As well as being a close friend, MacColl remained an important “sounding board” in Harrison’s professional life as well, as is evidenced by the relatively small but significant collection of her letters held within the MacColl Papers revealing how much Harrison relied on MacColl’s advice and judgement. This collection also contains correspondence between MacColl and Hope Mirrlees and Jessie Stewart, former students of Harrison with whom she had become friends, which show that MacColl was also a useful source of information for them whilst writing their biographies of Harrison (although Mirrlees never published her account of Harrison’s life). Ms MacColl H155-192: letters in folder. Returning to Newnham College as a lecturer from 1908 until 1922, she became a central figure of the group known as the Cambridge Ritualists, along with Gilbert Murray ( Professor of Greek at University of Glasgow, 1889-1899, public intellectual and internationalist), F.M. Cornford, and A.B. Cook, and published the book for which she is perhaps best known, “Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion” in 1903, followed in 1912 by “Themis: a study in the social origins of Greek religion” and other works developing these themes. Title page of “Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion” Following retirement in 1922, she lived for a time in Paris with her former student and companion, Hope Mirrlees, studying Russian language and culture and mixing with Russian refugees also living there, as well as writing her autobiography “ Reminiscences of a Student’s Life”. She returned to live in Bloomsbury, London, in 1925, where she remained until her death in 1928. Harrison’s work has established her reputation as one of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology. It was ground-breaking because she applied the results of archaeological discoveries, the analysis of ancient art, and philological study to the interpretation of Greek religion, a standard practice today but in Harrison’s era still a relatively new and exhilarating idea. This new approach helped to explain some of the chthonic aspects of ritual practice and how these may have derived from the darker and more primitive cults from which the classical Olympian pantheon had evolved. Previously, Greek myth, as recounted in ancient literature, was considered to be the main, if not the only, source of information. Drawing of Greek deities by Jessie Stewart from Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Sp Coll Laing 636. Arguably, Harrison may not have fully received the recognition she deserves, but her influence on Mirrlees is readily apparent in some of the themes of Mirrlees’ later creative output, and in recent times, the American humanities scholar and British Classics don Mary Beard have both acknowledged how much Harrison has inspired their own work. Her work has also influenced research into other world mythologies, anthropology and art history. Interestingly, there are copies of several of Harrison’s works in the R.D. Laing Collection of books in Special Collections which previously belonged to the Glasgow psychiatrist and author, Ronald David Laing (1927-1989). The above mentioned letters of Harrison and her associates are available for consultation in Special Collections on Level 12 of the University Library. Harrison’s signature from MS MacColl H157. Jessie Stewart’s drawing of Greek deities from “Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion” is reproduced by kind permission of Miss Claire Pace. Lloyd-Jones, Hugh: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online article on Jane Ellen Harrison [ page accessed on 12/12/14] Newnham College Archives: Jane Harrison Collection website http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp? id=EAD%2FGBR%2F2911%2FPP%20Harrison [page accessed 21/1/15] Beard, Mary: The Invention of Jane Harrison (Sp Coll MacColl Add. 2 and Classics A85. H33 BEA) Robinson, Annabel: The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison (Classics A85.H33 ROB) Stewart, J.G.: Jane Ellen Harrison: A Portrait from Letters (Classics A85.H33 STE) Harrison, Jane Ellen: Reminiscences of A Student’s Life (Store 32117) Other items of interest: Letters of Jane Ellen Harrison to D.S. MacColl (Ms MacColl H155-H192) Letters of Hope Mirrlees to D.S. MacColl (Ms MacColl M617-624) Letters of Jessie Stewart to D.S. MacColl (Ms MacColl S434-438) Most of Jane Harrison’s extant papers and correspondence are held at the Archives of Newnham College, . Books by Jane Ellen Harrison in Special Collections: Greek Vase Paintings (Sp Coll Mu3-x.1) Prolegomena to the study of Greek Religion (3rd ed.) (Sp Coll Laing 636) Themis: a study of the social origins of Greek religion (Sp Coll Laing 1206) Dörpfeld, Wilhelm: Die ausgrabungen zu Olympia (Sp Coll g1-a.1-5)