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  2. Anne Harriman Vanderbilt - Wikipedia

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    Anne Harriman Sands Rutherfurd Vanderbilt (February 17, 1861 – April 20, 1940) was an American heiress known for her marriages to prominent men [1] and her role in the development of the Sutton Place neighborhood as a fashionable place to live.

  3. Grantland - Wikipedia

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    [21] [22] [23] Hannan's article was about the Oracle GXI golf putter and its creator, Essay Anne Vanderbilt, referred to as Dr. V. [24] It treated Vanderbilt's transgender identity in the same manner as a number of scientific qualifications that Vanderbilt had fraudulently claimed to hold, suggesting that Hannan considered Vanderbilt's gender ...

  4. Essay - Wikipedia

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    In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing. Subsequently, essay has been

  5. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant - Wikipedia

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    Anne Harriman Vanderbilt (sister-in-law) Rutherfurd Stuyvesant or Stuyvesant Rutherfurd (September 2, 1843 – July 4, 1909) was an American socialite and land developer from New York , best known as the inheritor of the Stuyvesant fortune.

  6. These Precious Days - Wikipedia

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    The essays range in subject, but often consider relationships in Patchett's personal and professional life, including with her father and stepfathers; her decision not to have children; the close friendship she develops in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic with Tom Hanks' assistant Sooki Raphael.

  7. A Room of One's Own - Wikipedia

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    The title of the essay comes from Woolf's conception that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction". [2] The narrator of the work is referred to early on: "Here then was I (call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or by any name you please—it is not a matter of any importance)". [8]

  8. Allen Tate - Wikipedia

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    Tate entered Vanderbilt University in 1918. He was the first undergraduate to be invited to join a group of men who met regularly to read and discuss their poetry: they included John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson on the faculty; James M. Frank, a prominent Nashville businessman who hosted the meetings; and Sidney Mttron Hirsch, a mystic and playwright, who presided. [1]

  9. Lorrie Moore - Wikipedia

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    She joined the faculty in 1984 [12] and left to join the faculty at Vanderbilt University in the fall of 2013, where she is now the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Moore has also taught at Cornell University , as the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College , and at the MFA in Creative Writing program ...