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Occupation Maude Royden
The year after completing her education at Oxford , MR went to work at the Victoria Women's Settlement in the slums of Liverpool.
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1922.
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Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
MAW was much later employed (in 1882 and 1888) as an examiner in Spanish for the Taylorian scholarship at Oxford .
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918.
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Occupation Maude Royden
Through the Rev. Hudson Shaw 's influence as a lecturer at Oxford University 's Extension Summer School , MR became a lecturer in English literature in the Extension Delegacy programme.
Royden, Maude. A Threefold Cord. Victor Gollancz, Nov. 1947.
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“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
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.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Occupation Elizabeth Carter
Edward Moore 's periodical The World mooted the extraordinary concept of EC as principal of an Oxford or Cambridge college: this number may be by Hester Mulso Chapone .
The World. R. and J. Dodsley.
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Occupation Matthew Arnold
MA was elected to the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford ; his were the first lectures delivered at the university in English, instead of Latin.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Occupation Elizabeth Taylor
ET wrote amusingly of the horror of appearing on a television programme about books, filmed at Birmingham: sitting on spindly chairs under dazzling lights with other participants (Angus Wilson , whom she liked...
Occupation Matthew Arnold
MA delivered his final lecture as Professor of Poetry at Oxford ; Culture and its Enemies is now known as the beginning of his important work Culture and Anarchy.
Arnold, Matthew. “Editorial Materials”. Culture and Anarchy, edited by Samuel Lipman, Yale University Press, 1994, p. Various pages.
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Occupation Alice Oswald
AO was elected by a large majority to the 311-year-old Chair of Poetry at Oxford University , as the first woman to hold the position.
Lea, Richard. “Alice Oswald elected Oxford professor of poetry by huge margin”. The Guardian, 21 June 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/21/alice-oswald-elected-oxford-professor-of-poetry-by-huge-margin.
Occupation Matthew Arnold
Educated at Oxford , MA was a school inspector from 1851 to 1886 and remained dedicated to the improvement of the English educational system throughout his life. He began publishing first as a poet, but...
Occupation Emma Marshall
While living first in Exeter and then in Gloucester, EM organized evening lectures for women, a cause into which she threw herself heart and soul.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
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(In Exeter she also visited the women's penitentiary...
Occupation Algernon Charles Swinburne
He turned down an honorary degree from Oxford and a Civil List pension.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Other Life Event Charlotte Yonge
A subscription was raised at Winchester School to found a scholarship in honour of CY , to take boys from the school on to Oxford or Cambridge .
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
Two full-length plays also had student productions at Oxford : Having a Wonderful Time (Questors Theatre , 1960), and Easy Death (Oxford Playhouse , 1961). Easy Death brought Churchill to the attention of...
politics Maude Royden
MR first came into contact with the women's suffrage movement in 1905, when she arrived at Oxford University as a lecturer in the Extension Delegacy programme. Soon after her arrival she was swept into the...
Author summary Alice Oswald
AO is a contemporary poet, the first to hold the historic position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University . Her work includes multimedia and performance poetry.

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