Brasenose College, Oxford University

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Arnold married Thomas Humphry Ward , a Fellow of Brasenose who came from a middle-class family.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
56, 43-4
Occupation Walter Pater
After graduating with a second-class Oxford degree from Queen's in December 1862, WP returned to London with his sisters. His early attempts to gain a clerical fellowship failed, but in February 1864 he returned to...
Occupation Walter Pater
While at Brasenose , he wrote three anonymous essays for the Westminster Review: Coleridge 's Writings, Winckelmann, and The Poetry of William Morris. All three were attacked, says scholar Laurel Brake
Residence Walter Pater
In 1869 Pater moved from Brasenose College and took a house with his sisters at 2 Bradmore Road, Oxford. He developed a wider social circle and began dressing like a dandy.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates Walter Pater
From his time at BrasenoseWP knew Oscar Browning . In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Simeon Solomon , Oscar Wilde , Vernon Lee , A. Mary F. Robinson
Education John Buchan
After going to school in several different towns as his father was allotted to various parishes, JB went on a scholarship to Glasgow University , where he specialised in classics and was taught by Gilbert Murray

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October 1974: The first women students were admitted to...

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October 1974

The first women students were admitted to formerly all-male colleges of Oxford University: Brasenose , Hertford , St Catherine's , Jesus , and Wadham .
Hitch, Susan. “Women”. The Oxford Myth, edited by Rachel Johnson, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
87-8
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
374
Thomas, Keith. “College Life, 1945-1970”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Vol.
viii
, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. 189-15.
210

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