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MW began her career as a journalist while at Oxford , editing the University magazine Isis; she then freelanced for many journals and newspapers, including Vogue. She also worked in radio broadcasting from...

Following his election as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University , WHA gave his inaugural lecture.

During the First World War she travelled the country giving lectures with slides shown on her own magic lantern, organized the knitting of comforters for the troops, and supported the Women's Institute (whose earliest...

GS delivered lectures at Cambridge and Oxford Universities; these were later published by the Hogarth Press .

After finishing her BA degree at Oxford , KKD returned to Calcutta to teach at Jadavpur University for one year.

Some time during the Balliol scandal, Benjamin Jowett gave WP a stern warning, and may have advised him not to apply for university positions. Soon afterwards he was passed over for a university Proctorship. During...

A subscription was raised at Winchester School to found a scholarship in honour of CY , to take boys from the school on to Oxford or Cambridge .

Two full-length plays also had student productions at Oxford : Having a Wonderful Time (Questors Theatre , 1960), and Easy Death (Oxford Playhouse , 1961). Easy Death brought Churchill to the attention of...

MR first came into contact with the women's suffrage movement in 1905, when she arrived at Oxford University as a lecturer in the Extension Delegacy programme. Soon after her arrival she was swept into the...

While she was studying English at Oxford University in the early 1960s, Ketaki Kushari (later KKD ) began to publish Bengali poems in various Indian literary magazines. Her first volume of poetry, Bolkol...

The book went through many stages and revisions before publication: the first draft had been finished in February 1944. A related draft and stories survive, but no complete manuscript. Larkin wrote that he was...

The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed . It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...

On coming down from Oxford in 1965, AO submitted to the Manchester Guardian an essay entitled On the Disadvantages of an Oxford Education. They rejected it.

Both works (mentioned by her daughter-biographer) circulated widely in manuscript copies (particularly in the masculine environment of Oxford University ) and in printed miscellanies. Nadine N. W. Akkerman (who has argued Elizabeth Cary Falkland's probable...

As a child Penelope Knox, together with her brother produced a family magazine. In 1980 she observed: The stories I wrote at the age of eight and nine did not bring me the success I...