Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
Oxford University
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Dunmore | Her mother, born Betty Smith, took university degrees at Manchester
and Oxford
universities. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 267 |
Publishing | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | 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. 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. 174 |
Textual Production | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | In 1981, Ananda Publishers
of Calcutta issued KKD
's autobiographical sketches written in Bengali, Nari, Nogori. Here KKD
remembers her undergraduate years at Oxford
. She especially focuses on her friendships with Eastern Europeans... |
Literary responses | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | When it was performed at a Writing Diasporas Conference held in Swansea, Night's Sunlight generated strong critical response.Tom Cheesman
, of the University of Wales at Swansea, found strong topical interest for Wales... |
Reception | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | KKD
feels strongly that the difficulty she has faced in attracting an English-speaking audience and commanding the attention of English-speaking critics is related to her ethnicity and bilingualism. Most of the slender English criticism of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | Ketaki Kushari
married Robert Dyson
, an Englishman and then a graduate student, whom she had met during her own undergraduate studies at Oxford University
. Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. Emails about Ketaki Dyson to Rebecca Blasco. 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 | 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 |
Occupation | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | After finishing her BA degree at Oxford
, KKD
returned to Calcutta to teach at Jadavpur University
for one year. 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. “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 |
Textual Production | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | KKD
began translating from Bengali to English in the 1960s, while she was still studying at Oxford
. In 1964 her first translation was published in Poetry Ireland: a poem by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore |
Publishing | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln | Elizabeth Knyvett
married Thomas Clinton, Earl of Lincoln
, an Oxford
graduate; if her generally accepted birth-date is accurate, she was legally married as a child. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. 7: 695 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Queen Elizabeth I | Her speeches in general are models of grand and persuasive rhetoric; they are designed to inspire patriotism and loyalty, while refusing to be pinned down on policy detail. Elizabeth's frequent references to her gender combine... |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Elstob | She got as far as renting a house for her school, but it seems that events then overtook her. Since her edition had failed, she had to refund money put up by subscribers, and once... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | 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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | The full title is Some Testimonies of Learned Men, in Favour of the Intended Edition of the Saxon Homilies, concerning the learning of the author of those homilies; and the advantages to be hoped for... |
Timeline
: The satirical magazine Private Eye issued...
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Autumn1961
The satirical magazine Private Eye issued its first number, a scruffy pamphlet; surviving copies were worth £1,000 by the end of the century, with the magazine still flourishing.
1963-4: Of 126,445 full-time university students...
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1963-4
Of 126,445 full-time university students in Britain, 33,809 were women: that is nearly 27% of the total.
1963-4: Of 126,445 full-time university students...
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1963-4
Of 126,445 full-time university students in Britain, 33,809 were women: that is nearly 27% of the total.
By autumn 1963: For the first time most students entering...
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By autumn 1963
For the first time most students entering university in Britain were admitted through the new national entrance scheme administered by UCCA (Universities Central Council on Admissions
).
11 April 1967: Tom Stoppard's first great stage success,...
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11 April 1967
Tom Stoppard
's first great stage success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, had its professional debut at the National Theatre
in London. A version had been seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival of...
1968: At the end of Edmund Blunden's tenure of...
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1968
At the end of Edmund Blunden
's tenure of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford
, Roy Fuller
was elected to follow him.
1970: The Oxford philosopher Mary Warnock published...
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1970
The Oxford
philosopher Mary Warnock
published Existentialism a study which traces the common interests of a number of philosophers including Sartre
, Kierkegaard
, Nietzsche
, Husserl
, and Merleau-Ponty
.
1979: St Anne's College became the first women's...
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1979
St Anne's College
became the first women's college at Oxford University
to go mixed (that is to admit men).
1993: Three formerly male-only Oxford colleges...
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1993
Three formerly male-only Oxford
colleges each elected its first female head: Marilyn Butler
became Rector of Exeter
, Averil Cameron
Warden of Keble
, and Jessica Rawson
Warden of Merton
.
19 February 2007: Sarah Thomas, an American, made history when...
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19 February 2007
Sarah Thomas
, an American, made history when she became the first woman and the first non-British person appointed Bodley's Librarian: head librarian at Oxford University
's Bodleian Library
(opened on 8 November 1602).
7 March 2008: Julian Blackwell, head of Blackwell's bookshop...
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7 March 2008
Julian Blackwell
, head of Blackwell's
bookshop and publishing firm, made a five million pound donation to Oxford University
's Bodleian Library
, the largest ever to a university library in the UK.
22 June 2010: George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
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22 June 2010
George Osborne
, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain's coalition government, announced a budget of unprecedented stringency to tackle unprecedented debt.
The Sunday Times Magazine, pp. 22-50.
31, 30
12 January 2016: Louise Richardson, an Irish scholar specializing...
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12 January 2016
Louise Richardson
, an Irish scholar specializing in security studies and terrorism, was inaugurated as the first female Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
.
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