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Occupation Algernon Charles Swinburne
He turned down an honorary degree from Oxford and a Civil List pension.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
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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
MAW was much later employed (in 1882 and 1888) as an examiner in Spanish for the Taylorian scholarship at Oxford .
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers.
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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.
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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
MA was elected to the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford ; his were the first lectures delivered at the university in English, instead of Latin.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
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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.
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Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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Occupation Matthew Arnold
MA delivered his final lecture as Professor of Poetry at Oxford ; Culture and its Enemies is now known as the beginning of his important work Culture and Anarchy.
Arnold, Matthew. “Editorial Materials”. Culture and Anarchy, edited by Samuel Lipman, Yale University Press, p. Various pages.
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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.
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“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.
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Occupation Matthew Arnold
Educated at Oxford , MA was a school inspector from 1851 to 1886 and remained dedicated to the improvement of the English educational system throughout his life. He began publishing first as a poet, but...
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.
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Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press.
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