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After her rescue from poverty and obscurity EE was visited by scholars eager to discuss their work with her. Edward Rowe Mores (who published a standard work on type-founding in 1754) visited her late in...

While studying at Oxford , he became a friend of Edward Burne-Jones , who introduced him to an extraordinary group of young men: William Fulford , Charles Faulkner , Cormell Price , and Richard Watson Dixon

The sisters were in general popular in Oxford society, but Rhoda, although at first she dined regularly at the table of scholar Benjamin Jowett ,, was then ostracized in some...

She moved to Oxford in order to be close to her friends Janet Wallace (one of her former students) and her husband the Hegelian philosopher and Oxford academic William Wallace . The Wallaces originated from...

Since Tom had gone up to Oxford as an undergraduate in 1825, Anne had been hearing at second hand about his friends, men who in after-times were to influence their generation. It was in...

In her local life, however, MJ felt isolated. On one occasion she told Martha Lovelace (later Beauclerk) that her only friend was a young Student of Oxford—probably not an intellectually stimulating friendship...

Through correspondence RM became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray , Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford , and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union . He was fifteen years her...

STW 's early friendships at Oxford involved young men whom she had known at Harrow, such as David Garnett and sculptor Stephen Tomlin . Throughout her life, she wrote frequent, engaging and witty...

Her father, Thomas Shore , received his education at Oxford and was a Church of England clergyman until his reservations about the Thirty-Nine Articles led him to redirect his energies to private tutoring. He educated...

MFB 's father was the Reverend George Henry Billington , who served as rector of Chalbury from 1861 to 1904. He was an antiquarian who corresponded with Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers and contributed to...

The Goudge family moved from Ely to Oxford when EG 's father became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University .

Carrington knew Rex Partridge by mid 1918; he was a friend of Noel Carrington at Oxford University , and was introduced to her by John Hope Johnstone . Partridge soon began to spend much...

Their brother Trevenen committed suicide in August 1914, having done (comparatively) badly in exams at Oxford , and fallen in love with a girl who worked as a maid (whom his family regarded as impossible)...

MP 's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School in Buckingham...

In June the previous year he had received an honorary degree from Oxford University .