Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Oxford University
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Goudge | The Goudge family moved from Ely to Oxford when EG
's father
became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | 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)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Dunmore | Her mother, born Betty Smith, took university degrees at Manchester
and Oxford
universities. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2025, Annual Volumes. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 267 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elspeth Huxley | She hoped for more children, but this did not happen. Meanwhile, she found the organization of childcare difficult in her extremely busy life. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002. 165-6, 180-1, 204 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Josephine Butler | JB
's husband was a university instructor who was ordained in the Anglican church in 1854. During the early years of their marriage he taught geography at Oxford University
. Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190: 66 Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001. 38 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Rigby | In June the previous year he had received an honorary degree from Oxford University
. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961. 100-1 |
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, and Rebecca Blasco. Emails about Ketaki Dyson to Rebecca Blasco. 17 Feb. 2005. 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, 1994, pp. 170-85. 175 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Pix | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rachel Speght | Procter, however, shared her and her father's theological opinions, and lived in the same part of London. An Oxford
graduate, he published a sermon in 1625, and owned a house at Upminster in Essex... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Constance Fletcher | JCF's uncle Solomon Caesar Malan
was an orientalist scholar, master of a dozen languages including Tibetan. He married an Englishwoman and became anglicized: a graduate of Oxford University
(to which he left his remarkable library)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Byron | At nineteen, while she was still an undergraduate at Oxford
, Catherine Greenfield (later CB
) married Ken Byron
, who was then a history student. 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, 1990. Byron, Catherine. “The Most Difficult Door”. Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 185-96. 188 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | |
Family and Intimate relationships | L. E. L. | LEL's brother was Whittington Henry Landon
. The profits from her writing contributed to his university education at Oxford
. Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995. 22, 33 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Mozley | AM
's brother Thomas Mozley
(three years older than Anne and the first of three brothers in the family to attend Oxford University
) Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886. Foster, 1887. |
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