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Education | Adrienne Rich | |
Education | Naomi Alderman | The same could not be said of Oxford University
, where she achieved a place to study PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). She had little social life at her college, since it would not provide... |
Education | Jennifer Dawson | JD
received her BA in history from Oxford
, after final exams postponed for a year because of a health breakdown. 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. Whitby, Joy. “In Memory of Jennifer Hinton (Dawson 1949)”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 54-5. 54 |
Education | Naomi Mitchison | |
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 |
Education | Sally Purcell | SP
received her Oxford
BA Honours in Medieval and Modern French after her three years at Lady Margaret Hall
. 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. Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, pp. 19-24. 19 |
Education | Cecil Frances Alexander | CFA
was well educated at home with her sisters, while her brothers attended Oxford
. 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. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput. 41, 45 |
Employer | Ruth Padel | |
Employer | Ruth Padel | In May 2009 she was elected the first-ever woman Professor of Poetry at Oxford
, but she resigned nine days later after revealing that she had informed a couple of journalists about past sexual harassment... |
Employer | John Ruskin | In August 1869 JR
was appointed the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University
. While in this role he established the Ruskin School of Art
, donated and arranged art collections, and... |
Employer | Seamus Heaney | |
Employer | James Anthony Froude | JAF
initially followed in his brother's footsteps at Oxford
, joining the Oxford Movement, assisting John Henry Newman
with his Lives of the English Saints, and taking orders as a Deacon. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grant Allen | GA
's first wife, whom he married while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford
, died prematurely. He married again the year after her death, and he and his second wife had one son. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Sewell | James Edwards Sewell
(1810-1903) became an academic. He served as Warden of New College, Oxford
, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green. xi The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory |
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