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Residence | Barbara Pym | |
Residence | Rhoda Broughton | The move, undertaken so that RB
might be closer to her publisher, and on the assurance of Matthew Arnold
that they would receive a warm welcome, Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins. 50 |
Reception | John Henry Newman | This tract had the result of getting the Tract
s banned. Tutors at Oxford
wrote to demand the author's resignation, principals of colleges drew up a manifesto against it, and the university's Hebdomadal Board condemned it. Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 100 Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Reception | Amanda McKittrick Ros | At St John's College, Cambridge
, for instance, there flourished an Amanda Ros Club, whose members amused themselves by trying to write in the Amanda style. Loudan, Jack, and T. Stanley Mercer. O Rare Amanda!. Chatto and Windus. 1 |
Reception | Mary Wollstonecraft | Katharine Marion Metcalfe
, a recent graduate at Oxford University
, did something extraordinary in enquiring of Professor Sir Walter Raleigh
whether materials existed for research on MW
. Raleigh proposed that Metcalfe should edit Jane Austen
instead. Barchas, Janine. “The Lost Books of Austen Studies”. States of the Book. CSECS/SCEDHS annual conference. |
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... |
Reception | Ruth Padel | RP
was elected (by a vote of all available Oxford University
graduates) Oxford's Professor of Poetry, to a Chair created in 1708 and never yet held by a woman. She resigned, however, after nine days. Batty, David. “Ruth Padel elected first female Oxford professor of poetry”. The Guardian. Wardrop, Murray, and Laura Roberts. “Ruth Padel quits as Oxford University’s Professor of Poetry amid ’sex smear claims’”. Daily Telegraph. |
Reception | Evelyn Underhill | EU
received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford
and head retreats in the Anglican Church
, she was elected a... |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | |
Reception | Kathleen Raine | She stood as a candidate for election as Professor of Poetry at Oxford
in 1968, but was unsuccessful. (Four years later John Betjeman
told her that she would have been a better choice for Poet... |
Reception | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
's poetry was broadcast on the BBC
's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1987, a CBE in... |
Reception | Ethel Smyth | ES
's musical career earned her two honorary Doctorates of Music: from the University of Durham
in 1911, and from Oxford
in 1926 (the first woman so honoured who was not part of the Oxford... |
Reception | Muriel Spark | MS
received an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University
. “Events”. Oxford Today, Vol. 12 , No. 1, Blackwell Publishers, p. 2. 2 |
Reception | Sappho | Despite all this, by the Renaissance enough survived for two leading Italian critics, Longinus
and Dionysios of Halikarnassos
, each to quote at full length a poem of Sappho
's, which they thereby preserved. Other... |
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 |
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