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Oxford University
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Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | |
Textual Production | Seamus Heaney | SH
gave the first of his lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. It was published the next year by the Clarendon Press
as The Redress of Poetry: an Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford |
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... |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | The book emerged from the Clarendon Lectures given at Oxford
in 2001. Jays, David. “Forever changes”. The Observer. |
Textual Production | Rosita Forbes | In her third novel, A Fool's Hell, RF
focussed centrally not on her young English Mike Treherne or Leila Grant, but on an Egyptian, Kamel Bey Riddha, who studied with Mike at Oxford University
. “New Books and Reprints. Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1138, p. 753. 753 |
Textual Production | Anne Mozley | AM
readied for publication—that is, for practical purposes, edited—a series of the works of her younger brother, J. B. Mozley
, Professor of Theology at Oxford
. She is remembered as the posthumous editor of... |
Textual Production | Alicia D'Anvers | ADA
's satirical poem entitled Academia; or, The Humours of the University of Oxford, went on sale in Oxford. It is available online from the Women Writers Project
, www.wwp.northeastern.edu. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 377 |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | She used the firm of John Murray
, who remained her regular publisher until 1912. Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana. 356 |
Textual Production | Alicia D'Anvers | ADA
mocked the university again in another satire, The Oxford
-Act: A Poem. It is available online from the Women Writers Project
, www.wwp.northeastern.edu. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Textual Production | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | KKD
began translating from Bengali to English in the 1960s, while she was still studying at Oxford
. In 1964 her first translation was published in Poetry Ireland: a poem by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore |
Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | |
Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | Edith Sitwell
had hosted a tea for GS
when she came to lecture at Cambridge
and Oxford
earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press. 184 |
Textual Features | Iris Murdoch | The novel is technically innovative: Murdoch composes several chapters entirely either of unattributed dialogue (at parties or social gatherings) or of letters which do not constitute a continued correspondence but, like the conversation, a cacophony... |
Textual Features | Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
Textual Features | Evelyn Waugh | The man who emerges as the white protagonist of the story, Basil Seal, is in trouble with his feckless, privileged circle at home, fed up and wanting to get away, when he is invited to... |
Timeline
1889: Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman law student...
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1889
Cornelia Sorabji
, the first woman law student at a British university, enrolled at Somerville College
, Oxford
.
1893: Mary Lucy Pendered dedicated her novel of...
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1893
Mary Lucy Pendered
dedicated her novel of two friends and their eventual disappointment with their husbands, Dust and Laurels: A Study in Nineteenth Century Womanhood, To that Hybrid Complication, the Woman of To-day.
12 October 1897: Nearly four years after the appearance of...
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12 October 1897
Nearly four years after the appearance of the first fascicle (A-ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary, a great dinner was held at Queen's College, Oxford
, for its volunteer readers, including women.
26 March 1902: Cecil Rhodes died, leaving a trust producing...
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26 March 1902
Cecil Rhodes
died, leaving a trust producing nearly £52,000 per annum to fund fifty-two (at first) graduate scholarships each year to Oxford
. They were not, under the terms of his will, open to women...
1904: Sir Walter Raleigh, author of the literary...
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1904
Sir Walter Raleigh
, author of the literary historyThe English Novel, 1894, moved from Glasgow
to become the first Professor of English Literature at Oxford
.
1912: Lilian Baylis began her tenure as manager...
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1912
Lilian Baylis
began her tenure as manager of the Old Vic
Theatre in London, which she converted from a music hall into a respected Shakespearian theatre.
1915: Principals of the women's colleges of Oxford...
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1915
Principals of the women's colleges of Oxford University
agreed to allow the formation of mixed societies.
1917: Oxford University opened its medical examinations...
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1917
Oxford University
opened its medical examinations to women.
1918: Oxford University opened its postgraduate...
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1918
Oxford University
opened its postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law examination to women; this was one of the changes introduced because the First World War shifted opinion towards assimilation of women in educational institutions.
17 February 1920: Oxford University admitted women as full...
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17 February 1920
Oxford University
admitted women as full members.
7 October 1920: At the beginning of Oxford University's academic...
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7 October 1920
At the beginning of Oxford University
's academic year, the women's statute came into effect: women were finally eligible to become Senior Members of the University.
14 October 1920: A week after the university statutes had...
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14 October 1920
A week after the university statutes had finally made women eligible for degrees, women graduates of Oxford
gathered for the belated award of degrees which they had earned, most of them, years before.
11 March 1921: Oxford University awarded its first honorary...
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11 March 1921
Oxford University
awarded its first honorary degree to a woman, Queen Mary
.
June 1925: Annie Jump Cannon, distinguished US astronomer,...
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June 1925
Annie Jump Cannon
, distinguished US astronomer, became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford University
.
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