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DLS 's interest in translating began during her years at Oxford . Her financial success as detective novelist allowed her to return to it later in her career, as with her version of The Song...

He was a son of the man of letters Oliver Elton . At the time of his wedding to EJS he was Oxford University 's Reader in Animal Ecology and a Senior Research Fellow of...

EJS began writing poetry in early childhood because of a love of meter and rhyme. As an undergraduate at Oxford she was placing her poetry in university journals. She was one of the few women...

James Edwards Sewell (1810-1903) became an academic. He served as Warden of New College, Oxford , and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University .

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...

PBS published his pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism, for which on this date he was sent down (i.e. expelled) from Oxford .

Her father, Thomas Shore , received his education at Oxford and was a Church of England clergyman until his reservations about the Thirty-Nine Articles led him to redirect his energies to private tutoring. He educated...

ES 's father, Arthur Sidgwick , was a classical scholar who had been regarded since school and university days as brilliant. He spent many years as a master at Rugby School before becoming a Fellow...

She received further honorary degrees from Durham (June 1948), Oxford (June 1951), and Sheffield (1955).

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...

After her death, much of MS 's library was presented to the Ladies' College at Hitchin (now Girton College , Cambridge), and in 1879 Somerville College at Oxford University was named after her.Oxford

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...

MS received an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University .

Procter, however, shared her and her father's theological opinions, and lived in the same part of London. An Oxford graduate, he published a sermon in 1625, and owned a house at Upminster in Essex...

During the First World War she travelled the country giving lectures with slides shown on her own magic lantern, organized the knitting of comforters for the troops, and supported the Women's Institute (whose earliest...