Cambridge University

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Textual Production A. E. Housman
AEH delivered the annual Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge , a critical study which was published the same year as The Name and Nature of Poetry.
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Textual Production Fanny Aikin Kortright
She had started putting my poems in shape for this volume some years earlier, while working in Bradford at her very first job as a governess. In later positions she continued to work at her...
Textual Production Josephine Butler
In a personal letter she said this pamphlet was written at the request of the Vice Chancellor and Dons of Cambridge .
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray.
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Textual Production A. E. Housman
AEH was also highly regarded as a literary critic. His inaugural lecture for what became the Kennedy Chair of Latin at Cambridge , given on 9 May 1911, was published in 1969 as The Confines...
Textual Production Eudora Welty
EW , who is so often identified with her Mississippian home and subject-matter, made some biting comments in a lecture given at Cambridge University on the use of the term regional writer.
Crapo, Trish. “Other Orders of Intimacy”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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Textual Production Ali Smith
At CambridgeAS , along with Sarah Wood , actress Cara Seymour , and Abigail Morris (former artistic director of the Soho Theatre Company ), comprised a small theatre company. The plays written by Smith...
Textual Production Penelope Fitzgerald
PF published The Gate of Angels, a novel set in an imaginary, all-male Cambridge college in 1912.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Harvey-Wood, Harriet. “Penelope Fitzgerald”. The Guardian, p. 22.
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Textual Production Lady Margaret Sackville
LMS published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library and the Bodleian have most of her publications. She was a Fellow...
Textual Production Violet Hunt
VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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Often writing in French, she used her diaries to record and explain her perceptions of daily events and experiences; her entries are sometimes rooted in fact but...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
QDL published her first major work of literary criticism: Fiction and the Reading Public, a slightly revised version of her recent Cambridge dissertation, Fiction and the Reading Public: A Study in Social Anthropology.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane.
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Textual Production E. M. Forster
EMF published his best-known work of literary criticism, Aspects of the Novel, based on the Clark Lectures which he had delivered at Cambridge .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon.
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Textual Production Katherine Parr
KP wrote a letter to the Fellows of Cambridge University , urging them to use our vulgar tonge.
Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill.
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Textual Production T. S. Eliot
TSE 's The Idea of a Christian Society incorporated the text of three papers delivered at Cambridge University in March.
Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace.
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Textual Production Gertrude Stein
Edith Sitwell had hosted a tea for GS when she came to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard and Virginia Woolf .
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press.
184
They had written on 11 June...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
In 2013 GG sold her archives (student notes and essays, scripts for the CambridgeFootlights Society , literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, a handmade book designed for her friend Gay Clifford , and professional and...

Timeline

1871: The University Test Act abolished all religious...

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1871

The University Test Act abolished all religious tests (of loyalty to the Church of England ) at both ancient universities in England (Oxford and Cambridge ) for admittance to matriculation, degrees, prizes, and fellowships.

1871: Cambridge University's celebrated Cavendish...

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1871

Cambridge University 's celebrated Cavendish Laboratory for experimental physics was founded.

1873: The Cambridge Association for the Higher...

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1873

The Cambridge Association for the Higher Education of Women secured admission for women to the lectures of Cambridge University .

1881: Cambridge University began admitting women...

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1881

Cambridge University began admitting women to degree examinations, but women were not awarded degrees on the same terms as men until they finally obtained that privilege in 1947 (first degrees awarded in 1948).

March 1885: The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race...

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March 1885

The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race was completely overshadowed by the sensational antics of an American advertising company.

27 April 1890: Cambridge University scientist Walter Heape...

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27 April 1890

Cambridge University scientist Walter Heape transferred embryos from a pregnant Angora rabbit to the uterus of a Belgian hare.

1893: The Exeter Technical and University Extension...

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1916: Cambridge University opened its medical examinations...

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1916

Cambridge University opened its medical examinations to women.

March 1917: With war raging and Russian revolution imminent,...

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March 1917

With war raging and Russian revolution imminent, the Cambridge University Senate met to map out a B.A. degree in English.

By June 1919: The new English Tripos (or BA degree course)...

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By June 1919

The new English Tripos (or BA degree course) at Cambridge was declared by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch to be an established success.
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books.
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By autumn 1921: Cambridge University gave women undergraduates...

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By autumn 1921

Cambridge University gave women undergraduates the right to attend university lectures, and eventually to receive a degree in name—without, however, the attendant privileges, including full university membership.

Late October 1921: Following the vote against full membership...

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Late October 1921

Following the vote against full membership of Cambridge University for women, female students had to enter lectures through mobs of barracking male students.

1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...

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1926

New statutes at Cambridge University first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.

1931: The first British female academic philosopher,...

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1931

The first British female academic philosopher, Susan Stebbing , published A Modern Introduction to Logic, the first textbook to popularise Bertrand Russell 's and Alfred North Whitehead 's difficult new formal logic alongside the old Aristotelian variety.

1932-1935: Although Ludwig Wittgenstein expressly forbade...

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1932-1935

Although Ludwig Wittgenstein expressly forbade it, analytic philosphers Alice Ambrose and Margaret MacDonald secretly took notes during his Cambridge lectures; these were later published (with Wittgenstein's approval) in two volumes known as the blue and...

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