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Wealth and Poverty | Frances Reynolds | |
Publishing | Mary Renault | |
Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | Soon after leaving OxfordER
became a Visitor for the Liverpool Central Relief Society
, which was linked to the Charity Organization Society
(COS): her first formal experience, it seems, in social work. Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press. 59 Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press. 35 |
Anthologization | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
contributed an essay to the Economic Journal which was reprinted in September as The Remuneration of Women's Services in The Making of Women: Oxford
Essays in Feminism. Pedersen, Susan. Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945. Cambridge University Press. 144 Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press. 379 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Eleanor Rathbone | This text grew out of the socio-economic research which she had begun in 1896, following her return to Liverpool from Oxford
. |
Reception | Kathleen Raine | She stood as a candidate for election as Professor of Poetry at Oxford
in 1968, but was unsuccessful. (Four years later John Betjeman
told her that she would have been a better choice for Poet... |
Residence | Barbara Pym | |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | BP
encountered Lord David Cecil
(Oxford
don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC
and aired as Tea With Miss Pym. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 44 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | While at boarding school and Oxford
, BP
was heavily influenced by the novels of Aldous Huxley
, whose books inspired her to become a writer. In this she resembles an otherwise entirely different writer,... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Barbara Pym | In many ways this novel reflects BP
's undergraduate years at Oxford
, featuring characters and episodes based partly on herself, her sister, and her friends or acquaintances. Among these, Henry Harvey
and the future... |
Characters | Barbara Pym | The central characters here are Jane Cleveland, a kindly and somewhat fey Oxford
don, and Prudence Bates, Jane's former student and surrogate daughter. Jane's main preoccupation is matchmaking for Prudence: she likens herself not only... |
Textual Production | Barbara Pym | BP
began keeping a diary in 1931. Her papers are archived at the Bodleian Library
, Oxford University
. (BP
took her degree at St Hilda's College
.) This material includes unpublished poems, short... |
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 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Winifred Peck | A diary she kept during her last few weeks as an Oxford
undergraduate was, she lated judged, rendered tedious by its starry-eyed, over-romantic enumeration of natural and architectural beauties. Peck, Winifred. A Little Learning; or, A Victorian Childhood. Faber and Faber. 154 |
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