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In NB 's third year at Oxford , John Wain started a new literary magazine, Mandrake, which published her first short story.

Her historical importance has been recognised by two recent biographies, those of Janet Wallach , 1996 (Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia)...

MFB 's father was the Reverend George Henry Billington , who served as rector of Chalbury from 1861 to 1904. He was an antiquarian who corresponded with Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers and contributed to...

EB was awarded a CBE in 1948, and received two honorary degrees: from Trinity College , Dublin, in 1949 and from Oxford University in 1956.

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...

AB 's three eldest sisters had attended Oxford and one had become a don, though her two other elder sisters had been kept from university life by poor health. Her family assumed that she would...

The letters of this correspondence, even more verbally demonstrative than those to her husband, also teem with good advice about diet, exercise, and learning. When her son arrives at university, BLH urges him to read...

VB 's first novel, The Dark Tide, was published; it drew heavily on her own experiences at post-war Oxford .

The year after the Oxford women's colleges finally reached fully equal status with the men's, VB published The Women at Oxford , A Fragment of History.

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, was to provide them with a home for...

The sisters were in general popular in Oxford society, but Rhoda, although at first she dined regularly at the table of scholar Benjamin Jowett ,, was then ostracized in some...

In Belinda, RB is believed to have drawn extensively from her own early negative experience of the closed world of Oxford society. It was in particular believed that she caricatured college head Mark Pattison

EB was born into an English gentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was...

He left Oxford without taking a degree.

JB 's husband was a university instructor who was ordained in the Anglican church in 1854. During the early years of their marriage he taught geography at Oxford University .