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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. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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. 91 |
Textual Production | A. E. Housman | |
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. xxiii , No. 1, pp. 9-10. 9-10 |
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 | |
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. 9 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
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. 39 |
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. 206 |
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. 67 |
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 |
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).
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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1893
The Exeter Technical and University Extension College was founded.
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.
133
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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