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Jane Ellen Harrison was a British classical scholar and linguist, and one of the founders of modern studies in Ancient Greek religion and mythology, alongside Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert. She has been credited as the first woman in England to hold a post as a full-time career academic.
Jane Ellen Harrison was born in Cottingham, Yorkshire, on the 9th of September 1850. She died at age 77 on the 15th of April 1928, at her home in Bloomsbury, London.
Harrison spent most of her professional life at Newnham College, the women's college at Cambridge, where she was appointed a lecturer in 1898 and stayed until her retirement in 1922.
A hiring committee recommended Harrison for the Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology after Reginald Stuart Poole died in 1895, but Flinders Petrie blocked the decision in favor of Ernest Gardner, arguing Harrison lacked Gardner's knowledge base.
Published in 1903, the book worked from ritual to myth rather than the reverse, analyzing Athenian festivals such as the Anthesteria, Thargelia, Plynteria, Skirophoria, Stenia, and Haloa for traces of primitive ritual survival.
Harrison's Prolegomena had a compelling and inspirational impact on the later work of T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Hilda Doolittle, and Virginia Woolf referenced her in A Room of One's Own, published in 1929.