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Employer | Seamus Heaney | |
Employer | James Anthony Froude | JAF
initially followed in his brother's footsteps at Oxford
, joining the Oxford Movement, assisting John Henry Newman
with his Lives of the English Saints, and taking orders as a Deacon. |
Employer | Ruth Padel | |
Employer | Ruth Padel | In May 2009 she was elected the first-ever woman Professor of Poetry at Oxford
, but she resigned nine days later after revealing that she had informed a couple of journalists about past sexual harassment... |
Employer | John Ruskin | In August 1869 JR
was appointed the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University
. While in this role he established the Ruskin School of Art
, donated and arranged art collections, and... |
Education | Anna Kavan | After her father's death, her mother moved her to a boarding school at Lausanne in Switzerland, and then to a progressive girls' school, Parsons Mead School in Ashtead, Surrey. Before long Helen had... |
Education | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | KKD
worked on her a DPhil in English from Oxford University
. 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. Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, p. xxi; 406 pp. vii Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. “Forging a Bilingual Identity: A Writer’s Testimony”. Bilingual Women: Anthropological Approaches to Second Language Use, edited by Pauline Burton et al., Berg, pp. 170-85. 175 |
Education | Ethel Savi | ES
was privately educated, never, as she put it, on orthodox lines. At one point she was sent for eighteen months to boarding school in Calcutta—at which, however, she learned nothing. Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson. 40 |
Education | Iris Murdoch | IM
took her Honours BA, First Class, in Greats (classics, ancient history, and philosophy) at Somerville College
, Oxford. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 133 |
Education | Dorothy L. Sayers | |
Education | Iris Murdoch | At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University
and a place at Vassar
in New York State, as... |
Education | Dorothy L. Sayers | She earned first-class Honours, though as a woman she was not yet allowed to take a degree. While at Oxford
she met Vera Brittain
, who liked her on sight. She dressed flamboyantly and eccentrically... |
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 | Ray Strachey | |
Education | Adrienne Rich |
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