Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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Characters | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel focuses on the war effort at home. A country squire and antiquarian is converted from resistance to enthusiasm for the cause through the traumatic death of his son and, above all, the influence... |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | |
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. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | In 1868 Mary Augusta Arnold met Mark Pattison
, Rector of Lincoln College and a prominent Oxford scholar, and his wife, Emily Francis Pattison
, a former art student and connoisseur. Unconventional and bohemian, the... |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Textual Production | Mary Augusta Ward | She was one of the first women permitted to use the library; Oxford University
was still an all-male institution. The essay was reprinted anonymously the same year in the distinguished university journal The Dark Blue... |
Characters | Mary Augusta Ward | Isabel Bretherton is a beautiful but untaught actress from the colonies (born of a Scots father and Italian mother). She falls in love with an Oxford
scholar, Eustace Kendal. but is deeply wounded by his... |
Characters | Mary Augusta Ward | The book is a tribute to the OxfordMAW
so loved. The book traces the arrival of an orphaned heiress at the home of her uncle, a married and financially struggling Reader in classics at... |
Textual Production | Doreen Wallace | DW
's first published novel, A Little Learning (titled from Alexander Pope
), satirically depicts both the all-female world of an Oxford
women's college and the world beyond the college walls, heterosexual but restrictive for... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Doreen Wallace | DW
never names the man, a childhood friend who came back from the Great War with a shattered knee, who broke her heart by failing fully to return the passionate love which developed between them... |
Literary Setting | Doreen Wallace | Olive Flowerdew, a Suffolk smallholder's daughter, home from her first vacation from Oxford
, finds herself alienated from her family: from her father, who is generously willing to be left behind as she gets ahead... |
Literary responses | Doreen Wallace | Of Do Come and Bring Your Fiends [sic], in which a young woman with a recent Oxford
degree finds and loses love, June Shepherd
wrote the pain leaps clear from these pages. Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press. 145 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Doreen Wallace | |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Waddell |
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