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|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Eleanor Rathbone | |
| Birth | May Cannan | She thus records her entry into the all-male institution of Oxford University
in the nineteenth century. She goes on: There was already an elder sister and it had been a son that had been hoped... |
| Characters | Mary Augusta Ward | The book is a tribute to the OxfordMAW
so loved. The book traces the arrival of an orphaned heiress at the home of her uncle, a married and financially struggling Reader in classics at... |
| Characters | Ella Hepworth Dixon | Peggy describes her ephemeral admirers with piercing humour and biting sarcasm: for example, Gilbert Mandell, who at thirty-four is twice her age. The son of a deodorant manufacturer, Gilbert deals with his father's publicity by... |
| Characters | Evelyn Sharp | The protagonist of the opening story has covered herself with glory as a student of Greek at Oxfprd
, but she still has no means of earning a living except work as a governess. In... |
| Characters | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel focuses on the war effort at home. A country squire and antiquarian is converted from resistance to enthusiasm for the cause through the traumatic death of his son and, above all, the influence... |
| Characters | Lettice Cooper | The story is set in a town called Aire, which has been variously identified as Leeds and Sheffield. It depicts the socialist movement at a moment of transition: the rich industrialist Marsdens, the old-money... |
| Characters | Barbara Pym | The central characters here are Jane Cleveland, a kindly and somewhat fey Oxford
don, and Prudence Bates, Jane's former student and surrogate daughter. Jane's main preoccupation is matchmaking for Prudence: she likens herself not only... |
| Characters | Enid Bagnold | Mrs Basil, a wealthy, eccentric woman, owner of a large country house (a fairly obvious self-portrait) entertains a weekend house-party composed of her beloved grandson Niggie and his unconventional friends from Oxford
: a homosexual... |
| Characters | Winifred Peck | It is her mother, Ione decides, who is the rock of this house, while her father is the sands—a splendid stretch with good safe bathing, but sand all the same! Peck, Winifred. Veiled Destinies. Faber and Faber, 1948. 189 |
| Characters | Penelope Mortimer | Again the subject is an unhappy marriage, in which the wife is plaintive and neurotic and the dislikeable husband is (as a change from the law) a dentist. Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion, 2005. 81 |
| Characters | Elizabeth Boyd | A first prologue addresses Pope
, and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare
(The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden
(Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB
's performance in... |
| Characters | Jennifer Dawson | This, building like so many of her works on her own experiences, reverts to her unhappy time as a student at Oxford
. The protagonist is Claire, a college secretary who reflects back in the... |
| Characters | Evelyn Waugh | Its young male protagonist, recently an Oxford
undergraduate, is enabled by his stupid attempt at suicide to achieve a brief, exalted feeling of being poised between life and death. The technique is experimental, drawing on... |
| Characters | Mary Augusta Ward | Isabel Bretherton is a beautiful but untaught actress from the colonies (born of a Scots father and Italian mother). She falls in love with an Oxford
scholar, Eustace Kendal. but is deeply wounded by his... |
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1167: Oxford University was founded....
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1167
Oxford University
was founded.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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Rashdall, Hastings. Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Editors Powicke, Sir Frederick Maurice and Alfred Brotherston Emden, Clarendon, 1987, 3 vols.
3: 15
1502: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...
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1502
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
(also known as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of the future Henry VII
), endowed the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge University.
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1575: The University of Leiden was founded as a...
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The University of Leiden
was founded as a centre of Protestant learning (as were a number of new Oxford
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colleges at about this time, with the same religio-political agenda).
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xvi
, No. 4, 1998, pp. 314-40. 318
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, who happened at the time to be Chancellor of Oxford University
.
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cxii
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2001, pp. 160-1. 160
1710: Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through...
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1710
Oxford
scholar Thomas Hearne
published through the university press
the first of the nine volumes of The Itinerary of John Leland
, Antiquary.
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18 June 1723-1724: A periodical entitled The Visiter was published...
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18 June 1723-1724
A periodical entitled The Visiter was published in London; it promised its readers to be a friend to them.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
158, 161
1768: The Countess of Huntingdon opened Trevecca...
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1768
The Countess of Huntingdon
opened Trevecca College
, for the training of evangelical Dissenting ministers, at Trevecca, Brecknockshire, Wales.
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July 1773: The Westminster Magazine printed, along with...
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July 1773
The Westminster Magazine printed, along with its account of Oxford University
's annual degree-giving, an article by L. P.On the Propriety of Bestowing Academical Honours on the Ladies.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
271-2
4 October 1784: James Sadler, a technician in the chemistry...
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4 October 1784
James Sadler
, a technician in the chemistry laboratory of Oxford University
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1805: The East India Company established a training...
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10 October 1813: Mark Pattison, future Tractarian, scholar,...
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10 October 1813
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1 October 1828: The Cambridge campaign to increase the study...
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1 October 1828
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20 February 1829: The first issue of the provocative London...
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20 February 1829
The first issue of the provocative London Review was published by Oxford
intellectuals.
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1832: The University of Durham was founded....
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1832
The University of Durham was founded.
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Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
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Dyhouse, Carol. No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939. UCL Press, 1995.
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5 April 1843: John Ruskin, as a Graduate of Oxford, published...
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5 April 1843
John Ruskin
, as a Graduate of Oxford, published the first volume of Modern Painters.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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