Oxford University

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Residence Barbara Pym
After graduating from Oxford , BP lived at home with her parents in Oswestry, not seeking paid work but principally occupied by her writing.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press.
5
Residence Rhoda Broughton
The move, undertaken so that RB might be closer to her publisher, and on the assurance of Matthew Arnold that they would receive a warm welcome,
Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins.
50
was to provide them with a home for...
Reception Edith Sitwell
She received further honorary degrees from Durham (June 1948), Oxford (June 1951), and Sheffield (1955).
Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
267-8, 293-4, 315-16
Reception Ruth Padel
RP was elected (by a vote of all available Oxford University graduates) Oxford's Professor of Poetry, to a Chair created in 1708 and never yet held by a woman. She resigned, however, after nine days.
Batty, David. “Ruth Padel elected first female Oxford professor of poetry”. The Guardian.
Wardrop, Murray, and Laura Roberts. “Ruth Padel quits as Oxford University’s Professor of Poetry amid ’sex smear claims’”. Daily Telegraph.
Reception Evelyn Underhill
EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...
Reception Kathleen Raine
She stood as a candidate for election as Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1968, but was unsuccessful. (Four years later John Betjeman told her that she would have been a better choice for Poet...
Reception U. A. Fanthorpe
UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...
Reception Ethel Smyth
ES 's musical career earned her two honorary Doctorates of Music: from the University of Durham in 1911, and from Oxford in 1926 (the first woman so honoured who was not part of the Oxford...
Reception Muriel Spark
MS received an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University .
“Events”. Oxford Today, Vol.
12
, No. 1, Blackwell Publishers, p. 2.
2
Reception Sappho
Despite all this, by the Renaissance enough survived for two leading Italian critics, Longinus and Dionysios of Halikarnassos , each to quote at full length a poem of Sappho 's, which they thereby preserved. Other...
Reception Marina Warner
Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...
Reception A. S. Byatt
ASB is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and received an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford University on 20 June 2007.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
50
“Encaenia”. Oxford Today, Vol.
20
, No. 1, p. 11.
11
Her official website, www.asbyatt.com/, including comment and a detailed bibliography, became...
Reception Mary Somerville
MS outstanding intellectual achievements were memorialised in the foundation after her death of Somerville College as an Oxford University women's college. In 2017 she was honoured with an image (in a fetching bonnet) on the...
Reception Mary Barber
Mary Chandler responded with praise of MB 's Lines with Wit and Humour fraught, / Pure as her Morals, sprightly as her Thought.
Budd, Adam. “’Merit in Distress’: The Troubled Success of Mary Barber”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
53
, pp. 204-27.
205
Another English fellow-poet, Mary Jones (to whom Barber's Poems were lent...
Reception Hilary Mantel
HM already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison , 2004. A. S. Byatt discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen and Muriel Spark

Timeline

: The satirical magazine Private Eye issued...

Building item

Autumn1961

The satirical magazine Private Eye issued its first number, a scruffy pamphlet; surviving copies were worth £1,000 by the end of the century, with the magazine still flourishing.

By autumn 1963: For the first time most students entering...

Building item

By autumn 1963

For the first time most students entering university in Britain were admitted through the new national entrance scheme administered by UCCA (Universities Central Council on Admissions ).

1963-4: Of 126,445 full-time university students...

Building item

1963-4

Of 126,445 full-time university students in Britain, 33,809 were women: that is nearly 27% of the total.

1963-4: Of 126,445 full-time university students...

Building item

1963-4

Of 126,445 full-time university students in Britain, 33,809 were women: that is nearly 27% of the total.

11 April 1967: Tom Stoppard's first great stage success,...

Writing climate item

11 April 1967

Tom Stoppard 's first great stage success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, had its professional debut at the National Theatre in London. A version had been seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival of...

1968: At the end of Edmund Blunden's tenure of...

Writing climate item

1968

At the end of Edmund Blunden 's tenure of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford , Roy Fuller was elected to follow him.

1970: The Oxford philosopher Mary Warnock published...

Women writers item

1970

The Oxford philosopher Mary Warnock published Existentialism a study which traces the common interests of a number of philosophers including Sartre , Kierkegaard , Nietzsche , Husserl , and Merleau-Ponty .

1979: St Anne's College became the first women's...

Building item

1979

St Anne's College became the first women's college at Oxford University to go mixed (that is to admit men).

1993: Three formerly male-only Oxford colleges...

Building item

1993

Three formerly male-only Oxford colleges each elected its first female head: Marilyn Butler became Rector of Exeter , Averil Cameron Warden of Keble , and Jessica Rawson Warden of Merton .

19 February 2007: Sarah Thomas, an American, made history when...

Building item

19 February 2007

Sarah Thomas , an American, made history when she became the first woman and the first non-British person appointed Bodley's Librarian: head librarian at Oxford University 's Bodleian Library (opened on 8 November 1602).

7 March 2008: Julian Blackwell, head of Blackwell's bookshop...

Building item

7 March 2008

Julian Blackwell , head of Blackwell's bookshop and publishing firm, made a five million pound donation to Oxford University 's Bodleian Library , the largest ever to a university library in the UK.

22 June 2010: George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer...

National or international item

22 June 2010

George Osborne , Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain's coalition government, announced a budget of unprecedented stringency to tackle unprecedented debt.
The Sunday Times Magazine, pp. 22-50.
31, 30

12 January 2016: Louise Richardson, an Irish scholar specializing...

Building item

12 January 2016

Louise Richardson , an Irish scholar specializing in security studies and terrorism, was inaugurated as the first female Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University .

Texts

No bibliographical results available.