Adrienne Rich
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Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bring
Rich in 1983
Rich (right), with writers Audre Lorde (left) and Meridel Le Sueur (middle) in Austin, Texas, 1980
Radcliffe College
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Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard College. The college was named for the early
Adrienne Rich
…that] gave us fine role models of single women who were intellectually impassioned." After graduating from high school, Rich earned her diploma at Radcliffe College of Harvard University, where she focused on poetry and learning the writing craft, encountering no women teachers at all. In 1951, her senior year at…
Fay House, one of the college's first buildings, and the gymnasium in c. 1904
A radio science class at Radcliffe College in 1922
Byerly Hall, built in 1932
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz House, 2012