Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Oxford

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Walter Pater
WP was particularly close to his unmarried sisters. Both women were accomplished in their own right. The elder sister, Hester , became known as a talented embroiderer and friend to Mary Augusta Ward and Virginia Woolf
Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
Along with Mrs Max Müller , Charlotte Byron Green (wife of Thomas Hill Green and sister of John Addington Symonds ), and Louise Creighton , MAW became a secretary of the Lectures for Women Committee

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1873: Administrative consternation was caused when...

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1873

Administrative consternation was caused when the top-ranked candidate in the Oxford Senior Local Examination turned out to be a woman, or girl: the seventeen-year-old Annie Rogers . Girls had been eligible to sit these exams...

22 June 1878: The Association for Promoting the Higher...

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22 June 1878

The Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Oxford was founded.
Grier, Miss L. “Women’s Education at Oxford”. Handbook to the University of Oxford, Clarendon, 1956, pp. 291-9.
284
Green, Vivian Hubert Howard. A History of Oxford University. Batsford, 1974.
185

22 June 1878: The Association for Promoting the Higher...

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22 June 1878

The Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Oxford was founded.
Grier, Miss L. “Women’s Education at Oxford”. Handbook to the University of Oxford, Clarendon, 1956, pp. 291-9.
284
Green, Vivian Hubert Howard. A History of Oxford University. Batsford, 1974.
185

1879: The Society of Oxford Home Students was founded...

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1879

The Society of Oxford Home Students was founded to provide for female students not attached to a hall; it later became St Anne's College .
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
59-61, 197
Green, Vivian Hubert Howard. A History of Oxford University. Batsford, 1974.
185
Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31.
29, 30

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