Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Oxford University
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Joseph Addison | Joseph attended various schools, including Charterhouse
, before going on to Oxford
, where he was a member of two successive colleges. He later travelled to France and Italy on a grant from his college... |
Education | Naomi Alderman | The same could not be said of Oxford University
, where she achieved a place to study PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). She had little social life at her college, since it would not provide... |
Literary Setting | Naomi Alderman | The protagonist, James, studied physics at Oxford
before embarking on a business career in London and Italy. James is gay, and otherwise unremarkable; the lessons are those that life has taught him since his... |
Education | Cecil Frances Alexander | CFA
was well educated at home with her sisters, while her brothers attended Oxford
. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput. 41, 45 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grant Allen | GA
's first wife, whom he married while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford
, died prematurely. He married again the year after her death, and he and his second wife had one son. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Gillian Allnutt | Sheba Feminist Publishers
, established in January 1980, is a small independent publisher that champions the work of marginalized UK women. This includes the writing of women who [haven't] been to Oxford
or Cambridge
... |
Occupation | Matthew Arnold | |
Occupation | Matthew Arnold | |
Occupation | Matthew Arnold | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Diana Athill | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Diana Athill | As a child DA
began writing a play in which a cousin was to play the role of the good, blond and slightly insipid princess, while Diana was to be the dark, wicked one. Athill, Diana. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. Granta. 170 |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | |
Occupation | W. H. Auden | Following his election as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University
, WHA
gave his inaugural lecture. Auden, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays. Faber and Faber. 31n |
Characters | Enid Bagnold | Mrs Basil, a wealthy, eccentric woman, owner of a large country house (a fairly obvious self-portrait) entertains a weekend house-party composed of her beloved grandson Niggie and his unconventional friends from Oxford
: a homosexual... |
Reception | Mary Barber | Mary Chandler
responded with praise of MB
's Lines with Wit and Humour fraught, / Pure as her Morals, sprightly as her Thought. Budd, Adam. “’Merit in Distress’: The Troubled Success of Mary Barber”. Review of English Studies, Vol. 53 , pp. 204-27. 205 |
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1167: Oxford University was founded....
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1167
Oxford University
was founded.
1502: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...
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1502
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
(also known as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of the future Henry VII
), endowed the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge University.
1575: The University of Leiden was founded as a...
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1575
The University of Leiden
was founded as a centre of Protestant learning (as were a number of new Oxford
and Cambridge
colleges at about this time, with the same religio-political agenda).
11 July 1637: The Bodleian Library's right to one copy...
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11 July 1637
The Bodleian Library
's right to one copy of each new book published in Britain was re-established by order of Archbishop Laud
, who happened at the time to be Chancellor of Oxford University
.
1710: Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through...
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1710
Oxford
scholar Thomas Hearne
published through the university press
the first of the nine volumes of The Itinerary of John Leland
, Antiquary.
18 June 1723-1724: A periodical entitled The Visiter was published...
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18 June 1723-1724
A periodical entitled The Visiter was published in London; it promised its readers to be a friend to them.
1768: The Countess of Huntingdon opened Trevecca...
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1768
The Countess of Huntingdon
opened Trevecca College
, for the training of evangelical Dissenting ministers, at Trevecca, Brecknockshire, Wales.
July 1773: The Westminster Magazine printed, along with...
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July 1773
The Westminster Magazine printed, along with its account of Oxford University
's annual degree-giving, an article by L. P.On the Propriety of Bestowing Academical Honours on the Ladies.
4 October 1784: James Sadler, a technician in the chemistry...
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4 October 1784
James Sadler
, a technician in the chemistry laboratory of Oxford University
, made a successful hot-air balloon flight, taking off from Christchurch Meadows, Oxford, and landing near Woodeaton, several miles away.
1805: The East India Company established a training...
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1805
The East India Company
established a training college for civil servants.
10 October 1813: Mark Pattison, future Tractarian, scholar,...
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10 October 1813
Mark Pattison
, future Tractarian
, scholar, author, and Oxford
academic, was born at Hornby in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
1 October 1828: The Cambridge campaign to increase the study...
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1 October 1828
The Cambridge
campaign to increase the study of science in universities resulted in the founding of University College, London
, which emphasized science; this was the date of the inaugural lecture.
20 February 1829: The first issue of the provocative London...
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20 February 1829
The first issue of the provocative London Review was published by Oxford
intellectuals.
1832: The University of Durham was founded....
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1832
The University of Durham was founded.
5 April 1843: John Ruskin, as a Graduate of Oxford, published...
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Texts
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Verse of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. A Critical Edition. Editor Grundy, Isobel, Oxford University, 1971.