Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson.
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Textual Production | Dorothy L. Sayers | |
Education | Ethel Savi | ES
was privately educated, never, as she put it, on orthodox lines. At one point she was sent for eighteen months to boarding school in Calcutta—at which, however, she learned nothing. Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson. 40 |
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... |
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... |
Education | Maude Royden | MR
had two years at Cheltenham Ladies' College
, from which she won a place at Oxford
. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 13 “Agnes Maude Royden Biography”. BookRags.com. Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. prelims |
Occupation | Maude Royden | The year after completing her education at Oxford
, MR
went to work at the Victoria Women's Settlement
in the slums of Liverpool. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 31 Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. prelims |
Occupation | Maude Royden | Through the Rev. Hudson Shaw
's influence as a lecturer at Oxford University
's Extension Summer School
, MR
became a lecturer in English literature in the Extension Delegacy
programme. Royden, Maude. A Threefold Cord. Victor Gollancz. 30 “The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library. 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. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (31 July 1956): 10 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maude Royden | Shaw was lecturing at Oxford University
's Extension Summer School
when they met. At forty-two, he was seventeen years older than MR
, and she set him on a pedestal and never thought of him... |
politics | Maude Royden | MR
first came into contact with the women's suffrage movement in 1905, when she arrived at Oxford University
as a lecturer in the Extension Delegacy
programme. Soon after her arrival she was swept into the... |
Education | J. K. Rowling | She sat the entrance exams for admission to Oxford
, and got as far as being placed on a waiting list. She was rejected after the A-level results came through (although she got two A's... |
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 |
Textual Production | Emma Robinson | It was submitted to the Chamberlain as the work of a a young Oxonian: another young male identity, since women could not attend university any more than they could train for the army. The... |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | She belonged to the Poetry Society at Oxford
, contributed to the student magazine Isis, won a poetry prize from the teenage magazine Honey (for a female-student-voice answer to Christopher Marlowe
's The Passionate... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Rigby | In June the previous year he had received an honorary degree from Oxford University
. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 100-1 |
Education | Adrienne Rich |
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