Oxford University

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Education Adrienne Rich
AR won a Guggenheim fellowship, which enabled her to study at Oxford and travel through Italy.
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
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Education Naomi Alderman
The same could not be said of Oxford University , where she achieved a place to study PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). She had little social life at her college, since it would not provide...
Education Jennifer Dawson
JD received her BA in history from Oxford , after final exams postponed for a year because of a health breakdown.
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.
Whitby, Joy. “In Memory of Jennifer Hinton (Dawson 1949)”. The Ship, Vol.
91
, pp. 54-5.
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Education Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Haldane, aged sixteen (later NM ), enrolled as an Oxfordhome student in what later became St Anne's College.
Mitchison, Naomi. All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage. Bodley Head.
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Education Catherine Carswell
CC attended the Glasgow School of Art. On her return from Frankfurt she studied English Literature at Queen Margaret's College , the women's college which for nearly a decade had been part of Glasgow University
Education Sally Purcell
SP received her Oxford BA Honours in Medieval and Modern French after her three years at Lady Margaret Hall .
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.
Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, pp. 19-24.
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Education Cecil Frances Alexander
CFA was well educated at home with her sisters, while her brothers attended 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.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press.
She studied French and English language and literature, eventually becoming fluent in French.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput.
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Employer Ruth Padel
RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds.
Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm.
website
Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...
Employer Ruth Padel
In May 2009 she was elected the first-ever woman Professor of Poetry at Oxford , but she resigned nine days later after revealing that she had informed a couple of journalists about past sexual harassment...
Employer John Ruskin
In August 1869 JR was appointed the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University . While in this role he established the Ruskin School of Art , donated and arranged art collections, and...
Employer Seamus Heaney
From 1982 SH held an academic position at Harvard , where he taught for just one semester of the year. Two years into this arrangement Harvard appointed him Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. From...
Employer James Anthony Froude
JAF initially followed in his brother's footsteps at Oxford , joining the Oxford Movement, assisting John Henry Newman with his Lives of the English Saints, and taking orders as a Deacon.
Family and Intimate relationships Grant Allen
GA 's first wife, whom he married while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford , died prematurely. He married again the year after her death, and he and his second wife had one son.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Augusta Gregory
In 1895 Robert was awarded a scholarship to attend Harrow and study the classics. After an undistinguished career there, he went on to Oxford , where he became an amateur boxer. Later he aspired to...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
In a poem written at the age of twenty-one Elizabeth Sophia mentions four little sisters and a little brother, aged from two and a half to eleven and a half. She was evidently closest, emotionally...

Timeline

: An Oxford University women's rowing crew...

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Summer1927

An Oxford University women's rowing crew beat one from Girton, Cambridge —not by racing, which was deemed medically dangerous for delicate women, but by a separate, timed test.

14 June 1927: Oxford University passed a statute limiting...

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14 June 1927

Oxford University passed a statute limiting the numbers of women in residence to eight hundred and forty.

December 1927: Nancy Hewins opened the first production...

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December 1927

Nancy Hewins opened the first production by her touring Osiris Players , Britain's first professional all-female theatre company (successor to the amateur Isis Players , which she had run as an Oxford undergraduate).

1934: Oxford University ceased to insist on having...

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1934

Oxford University ceased to insist on having a woman demonstrator and separate laboratory space for women doing human anatomy practicals.

1935: Oxford University opened its Bachelor of...

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1935

Oxford University opened its Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Divinity degrees to women.

2 April 1938: The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised...

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2 April 1938

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised for the first time on the BBC .

1939: Cambridge's first professorship bestowed...

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1939

Cambridge 's first professorship bestowed on a woman, the Chair of Archaeology. was achieved by Dorothy Garrod of Newnham .

6 December 1947: The Senate of Cambridge University unanimously,...

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6 December 1947

The Senate of Cambridge University unanimously, if belatedly, voted to admit women for the first time as full members.

1948: Agnes Headlam-Morley became the first woman...

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1948

Agnes Headlam-Morley became the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Oxford when she took up the Montague Burton Chair of International Relations.

1951: The title of Leslie Allen Paul's memoirs,...

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1951

The title of Leslie Allen Paul 's memoirs, Angry Young Man, provided the term Angry Young Men, applied in newspapers and then by critics to a group of largely working-class, socially rebellious, young...

1952: Oxford University ceased to use a separate...

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1952

Oxford University ceased to use a separate class-list for women's examination results.

29 July 1954 - 1955: J. R. R. Tolkien, Professor of English Language...

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29 July 1954 - 1955

J. R. R. Tolkien , Professor of English Language at Oxford University and already author of a children's book called The Hobbit, 1937, published a 3-volume sequel written for adults: The Lord of the Rings.

1957: Oxford University abolished its quota limiting...

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1957

Oxford University abolished its quota limiting the numbers of women students.

1960: Following the recommendations of the Anderson...

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1960

Following the recommendations of the Anderson Report, a national scheme operated by Local Education Authorities supplied grants for all university students, subject to means testing.

1961: Oxford University instituted a scheme for...

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1961

Oxford University instituted a scheme for redistributing income and capital from richer to poorer colleges.

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