Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
St Hugh's College, Oxford University
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Patricia Beer | |
Education | Patricia Beer | From the council school PB
gained entrance to grammar school, from which in turn she won a place at Exeter University
, where she took a first-class BA in English. Later she came to feel... |
Education | Brigid Brophy | BB
went up to St Hugh's College
, Oxford, on the Jubilee Scholarship (reserved for exceptional candidates); she was, however, sent down for drunkenness and raucous behaviour Murdoch, Iris. Living on Paper. Editors Horner, Avril and Ann Rowe, Chatto and Windus, 2015. 603 Brophy, Brigid. “Afterword”. The King of a Rainy Country, Virago, 1990. 277 |
Education | Lucille Iremonger | Later she wrote that her three years at St Hugh's College, Oxford
, went by like a swift dream. Iremonger, Lucille. Yes, My Darling Daughter. Secker and Warburg, 1964. 143 |
Education | Mary Renault | MR
attended St Hugh's College, Oxford
, from which she graduated with a Class Three BA degree. Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993. 20, 37 |
Education | Mary Renault | When MR
arrived at St Hugh's College
, its reputation was at a very low ebb because of a series of events culminating in what was termed the Row. An Adventure, a book... |
Education | Joanna Trollope | JT
attended Reigate County School for Girls and from there won a place at St Hugh's College, Oxford
. She says she only really started to enjoy education when I got to university. Till then... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Yonge | Probably CY
's closest friend was Marianne Dyson
, an unmarried invalid twenty years her senior, to whom she habitually signed her letters as Your loving Slave. Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943. 64 Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943. 63 |
Textual Features | Lucille Iremonger | It relates the story told in a book called An Adventure, 1911, by Charlotte Moberly
and Eleanor Frances Jourdain
, Principal and Deputy Principal of St Hugh's College
(which LI
herself had attended). In... |
Timeline
1870
Oxford University
permitted the Delegacy of Local Examinations to examine girls in secondary education.
October 1886
St Hugh's College
for women was founded at Oxford University; its first principal was Anne Moberly
.
4 July 1985
At the age of thirteen, maths prodigy Ruth Lawrence
became the youngest Briton to earn a starred first-class degree when she graduated from St Hugh's College
, Oxford.
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