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Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | With Mrs Augustus Vernon Harcourt
, MAW
became inaugural secretary of the Somerville Committee
which was dedicated to the formation of a women's college at Oxford
. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 64 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. |
Occupation | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
wrote amusingly of the horror of appearing on a television programme about books, filmed at Birmingham: sitting on spindly chairs under dazzling lights with other participants (Angus Wilson
, whom she liked... |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Occupation | Elizabeth Carter | Edward Moore
's periodical The World mooted the extraordinary concept of EC
as principal of an Oxford
or Cambridge
college: this number may be by Hester Mulso Chapone
. The World. R. and J. Dodsley. 131: 790 |
Occupation | Gillian Allnutt | Sheba Feminist Publishers
, established in January 1980, is a small independent publisher that champions the work of marginalized UK women. This includes the writing of women who [haven't] been to Oxford
or Cambridge
... |
Occupation | Matthew Arnold | |
Occupation | Maude Royden | The year after completing her education at Oxford
, MR
went to work at the Victoria Women's Settlement
in the slums of Liverpool. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 31 Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. prelims |
Occupation | Matthew Arnold | |
Occupation | William Morris | While still at Oxford
, WM
began writing poetry with great dedication. He eventually published poems, stories, articles, and a single review (of Robert Browning
's Men and Women) in the periodical he produced... |
Occupation | Maude Royden | Through the Rev. Hudson Shaw
's influence as a lecturer at Oxford University
's Extension Summer School
, MR
became a lecturer in English literature in the Extension Delegacy
programme. Royden, Maude. A Threefold Cord. Victor Gollancz. 30 “The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library. 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. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (31 July 1956): 10 |
Occupation | Matthew Arnold | |
Occupation | Helen Waddell | After Oxford
(where she gave the lectures which launched her scholarly career), HW
applied for various academic jobs, which her biographer Monica Blackett
considers it lucky she did not get. (Many of these jobs included... |
Occupation | William John Courthope | WJC
became Professor of Poetry at Oxford
and was responsible for finishing an important edition of Alexander Pope
which had been begun by Whitwell Elwin
. As an editor he tended to read Pope's later... |
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 |
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