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at LOC.gov forward slash Kluge. That's K-L of the TLS, a fellow of

Nunium College, Cambridge, and much else besides. She has a piece in the current issue of the

LRB on Jane Ellen Harrison, who was she writes, in effect the first professional salaried female

academic in England. It's a review of a reissue of Harrison's memoir, reminiscences of a student's

life, which was first published in 1925, but is out now in an almost centenary edition. Hello, Mary,

and thank you very much for joining me today. Hi, nice to be here. So you described your own book,

The Invention of Jane Harrison, which was published in 2000,

as in part an experiment in exposing the processes through which we construct a narrative out of a life.

And as you say in your LRB piece, the standard narrative of Harrison's life comes directly from Harrison herself in the form of her reminiscences.

So maybe to begin, for those who aren't familiar with that version,

you could give us a quick run-through of the standard version of Jane Harrison.

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