St Hugh's College, Oxford University

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Education Patricia Beer
PB gained her final qualification, the graduate degree of BLitt from St Hugh's College, Oxford .
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, 1990.
Education Patricia Beer
From the council school PB gained entrance to grammar school, from which in turn she won a place at Exeter University , where she took a first-class BA in English. Later she came to feel...
Education Brigid Brophy
BB went up to St Hugh's College , Oxford, on the Jubilee Scholarship (reserved for exceptional candidates); she was, however, sent down for drunkenness and raucous behaviour
Murdoch, Iris. Living on Paper. Editors Horner, Avril and Ann Rowe, Chatto and Windus, 2015.
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after four terms.
Brophy, Brigid. “Afterword”. The King of a Rainy Country, Virago, 1990.
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Education Joanna Trollope
JT attended Reigate County School for Girls and from there won a place at St Hugh's College, Oxford . She says she only really started to enjoy education when I got to university. Till then...
Education Mary Renault
MR attended St Hugh's College, Oxford , from which she graduated with a Class Three BA degree.
Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
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Education Mary Renault
When MR arrived at St Hugh's College , its reputation was at a very low ebb because of a series of events culminating in what was termed the Row. An Adventure, a book...
Education Lucille Iremonger
Later she wrote that her three years at St Hugh's College, Oxford , went by like a swift dream.
Iremonger, Lucille. Yes, My Darling Daughter. Secker and Warburg, 1964.
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She took her BA in English Language and Literature. She later recorded that an unnamed...
Friends, Associates Charlotte Yonge
Probably CY 's closest friend was Marianne Dyson , an unmarried invalid twenty years her senior, to whom she habitually signed her letters as Your loving Slave.
qtd. in
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
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Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
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The family of George and Mary Anne Moberly
Textual Features Lucille Iremonger
It relates the story told in a book called An Adventure, 1911, by Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Frances Jourdain , Principal and Deputy Principal of St Hugh's College (which LI herself had attended). In...

Timeline

1870: Oxford University permitted the Delegacy...

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1870

Oxford University permitted the Delegacy of Local Examinations to examine girls in secondary education.
Markham, Felix. Oxford. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.
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Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
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Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
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Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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October 1886: St Hugh's College for women was founded at...

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October 1886

St Hugh's College for women was founded at Oxford University; its first principal was Anne Moberly .
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
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Kemp, Betty. “The Early History of St. Hugh’s College”. St. Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford, edited by Penny Griffin, Macmillan, 1986, pp. 15-47.
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Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
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, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31.
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4 July 1985: At the age of thirteen, maths prodigy Ruth...

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4 July 1985

At the age of thirteen, maths prodigy Ruth Lawrence became the youngest Briton to earn a starred first-class degree when she graduated from St Hugh's College , Oxford.
“Teenage Genius Gets a First”. BBC News: On This Day, 4 July 1985.
“Einstein Institute of Mathematics”. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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