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Reception | A. S. Byatt | ASB
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and received an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford University
on 20 June 2007. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 50 “Encaenia”. Oxford Today, Vol. 20 , No. 1, p. 11. 11 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Byron | At nineteen, while she was still an undergraduate at Oxford
, Catherine Greenfield (later CB
) married Ken Byron
, who was then a history student. 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. Byron, Catherine. “The Most Difficult Door”. Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, pp. 185-96. 188 |
Textual Features | Joanna Cannan | High Table is an Oxford University
novel, whose protagonist, Theodore Fletcher, grows up a child in a loveless family and feels a sudden, blank dreariness which . . . swamped his mind, when, lying awake... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joanna Cannan | The frontispiece depicts Oxford, and the university occupies a prominent position in the book (though JC
writes fondly, too, of villages like Peppard Common where she herself lived). Her second sentence proclaims: We who live... |
Birth | May Cannan | She thus records her entry into the all-male institution of Oxford University
in the nineteenth century. She goes on: There was already an elder sister and it had been a son that had been hoped... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Carrington knew Rex Partridge
by mid 1918; he was a friend of Noel Carrington
at Oxford University
, and was introduced to her by John Hope Johnstone
. Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 138 |
Education | Catherine Carswell | CC
attended the Glasgow School of Art. On her return from Frankfurt she studied English Literature at Queen Margaret's College
, the women's college which for nearly a decade had been part of Glasgow University |
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 |
Cultural formation | Barbara Cartland | |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Two full-length plays also had student productions at Oxford
: Having a Wonderful Time (Questors Theatre
, 1960), and Easy Death (Oxford Playhouse
, 1961). Easy Death brought Churchill to the attention of... |
Reception | Caryl Churchill | CC
has been recognised in Britain and the US with several major awards for play writing. As early as 1961, she won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize at Oxford University
. New York productions of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cassandra Cooke | CC
's elder son, Theophilus, was born in 1776. His mother was trying in 1799, after his graduation, to get him a parish, and in 1802 to get him a better one. Her younger son... |
Characters | Lettice Cooper | The story is set in a town called Aire, which has been variously identified as Leeds and Sheffield. It depicts the socialist movement at a moment of transition: the rich industrialist Marsdens, the old-money... |
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... |
Education | Abraham Cowley | He was educated at Westminster School
and Trinity College, Cambridge
. He later studied at Oxford University
for a degree in medicine. Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et. al., http://SpCol PR 553 J67 1781. 1: 3-6,11 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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