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Harrison’s Religious Views. Concerning Harrison’s personal religious views, most of the pertinent material comes early in the book in the Introductory section. First, is Stewart’s description of Harrison’s stepmother, which came from Harrison’s autobiography and has become the beginning and end for all subsequent discussion on Harrison’s personal religious views. To quote Stewart: 2 For a full discussion of the sometimes-contentious process involved between Stewart and Mirrlees in collaborating on Harrison’s biography see Peacock, Mask and Self, 245-248.
By Edmund Leach Leach’s article is a diatribe against Frazer and his Golden Bough; however, he includes a paragraph about Harrison that provides a quite unique view on what motivated her interest in ancient religion and ritual, and it illustrates another way in which Stewart interpretation has been used: to paint Harrison as a repressed sex-crazed Victorian lady. The purpose of Leach’s article was to question why Frazer had been so popular and why he remained so. Here is his answer: This I must confess is a puzzle.
This, along with the Cornford letter becomes one of the two “religious” experiences to which later biographers will point in discussions of her religion. 4 Influences. As Harrison’s student, Stewart was strategically positioned to detail the works that were important in Harrison’s work. Three books that were prescribed for Stewart’s preparatory work for the Classical Tripos were Roberson Smith’s Religion of the Semites, Maine’s Ancient Law, and Hermann Oldenberg’s Kultus und Mythus. Stewart remarks: Later I realised their importance and that she had found them fundamental in her own work.