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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 | Ray Strachey | |
Education | Adrienne Rich | |
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... |
Education | Jennifer Dawson | JD
received her BA in history from Oxford
, after final exams postponed for a year because of a health breakdown. 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. Whitby, Joy. “In Memory of Jennifer Hinton (Dawson 1949)”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 54-5. 54 |
Education | Naomi Mitchison | |
Education | Catherine Carswell | CC
attended the Glasgow School of Art. On her return from Frankfurt she studied English Literature at Queen Margaret's College
, the women's college which for nearly a decade had been part of Glasgow University |
Education | Sally Purcell | SP
received her Oxford
BA Honours in Medieval and Modern French after her three years at Lady Margaret Hall
. 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. Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, pp. 19-24. 19 |
Education | Cecil Frances Alexander | CFA
was well educated at home with her sisters, while her brothers attended Oxford
. 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. 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 |
Education | Ann Bridge | |
Education | Jeanette Winterson | JW
attended Accrington Girls' Grammar School, then Accrington College of Further Education. Although she first failed the Oxford University
entrance exams, she travelled to meet with the authorities and persuaded them to give her a... |
Education | Kathleen Nott | KN
's class of degree in her BA in PPE from Oxford University
was announced: she was awarded a fourth-class BA (a class which was popularly believed to reflect not lack of ability but rather... |
Education | Muriel Jaeger | In her final exams MJ
earned the equivalent of a second-class honours BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University
, after adding an extra year to the three-year degree course, probably because of... |
Education | Marghanita Laski | As a little girl ML
attended Ladybarn House School
in Manchester, which had been founded in 1873 as a pioneering institution following the educational ideals of Pestalozzi
and Froebel
. This was part of... |
Education | Maude Royden | MR
had two years at Cheltenham Ladies' College
, from which she won a place at Oxford
. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 13 “Agnes Maude Royden Biography”. BookRags.com. Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. prelims |
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