The arch, witty, outspoken memoirs of the pioneering archaeologist and scholar Mary Beard has called "my hero." First published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1925, Jane Ellen Harrison's Reminiscences are the irreverent memoirs of a student who declared Victorian...
Jane Ellen N. Harrison offers a charming and insightful account of her life as a student, both in Oxford and abroad. Harrison vividly describes the intellectual and social milieu of the late 19th century, as well as the challenges she faced as a woman navigating the male-dominated...