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Although the Victorian classicist Jane Ellen Harrison has now pretty much faded into that limbo populated by authors whose work is occasionally cited but not much discussed or read, it was not so long ago that she was a staple in any serious liberal arts diet. Indeed, until the 1950s Harrison was a vivid and controversial intellectual presence both in this country and in England, particularly among writers (Yeats and D. H. Lawrence are among those who acknowledged her influence) and literary critics of certain “advanced” tastes. And since almost any literary reputation—particularly that of a female writer—is a candidate for academic rehabilitation these days, it is hardly surprising that so substantial a figure as Jane Harrison should now be undergoing the first stages of reconstruction and reclamation.

In this new biography, Sandra J. Peacock, assistant dean of the graduate school at Emory University, serves up a psychoanalytic portrait of the classicist that manages to combine a heavy dose of Freudian analysis with all the current clichés about a wo

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Annabel Robinson has written a compelling and detailed account of the life and career of a major figure in modern classical studies. Born in 1850, Jane Harrison was among the first students to attend the newly founded women’s college, Newnham, at Cambridge University. Disadvantaged, like all women of her era, by the lack of thorough training in Greek and Latin during her earlier schooling, she achieved only a high second (comparable to, say, a “B+”) in the Cambridge Tripos. After leaving Newnham, she worked and studied under Charles Newton in the Department of Antiquities at the British Museum. Within the next two decades, she gained considerable notoriety as a brilliant and dynamic lecturer on topics relating to classical art and archaeology, often traveling to collections and sites in Greece and elsewhere in Europe. She had contact with eminent German archaeologists, for example, Ernst Curtius, the excavator of Olympia.¹ Her early publications augured a distinguished academic career. After being twice short-listed for the Yates Professorship of Classical Arch

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Jane Ellen Harrison

British classical scholar, linguist and feminist (1850–1928)

For other people named Jane Harrison, see Jane Harrison (disambiguation).

Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850 – 15 April 1928) 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 in England as a 'career academic'.^[1]^[2]^[3] Harrison argued for women's suffrage but thought she would never want to vote herself.^[4]Ellen Wordsworth Crofts, later second wife of Sir Francis Darwin, was Jane Harrison's best friend from her student days at Newnham, and during the period from 1898 to Ellen's death in 1903.

Life and career

Harrison was born in Cottingham, Yorkshire on 9 September 1850 to Charles and Elizabeth Harrison.^[5]