Oxford University

GS delivered lectures at Cambridge and Oxford Universities; these were later published by the Hogarth Press .

Edith Sitwell had hosted a tea for GS when she came to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard and Virginia Woolf . They had written on 11 June...

Ray Costelloe (later RS ) became the first woman to attend lectures on electrical engineering at Oxford .

ACS came from a noble family. His maternal grandparents were George, third earl of Ashburnham and his wife (who was born Lady Charlotte Percy ). His paternal grandfather, Sir John Edward Swinburne , owned an...

He turned down an honorary degree from Oxford and a Civil List pension.

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...

Her other brother, already at Oxford , was apparently not a very diligent student.

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...

By the end of 1910, VT had become romantically involved with Alan Parsons , whom she had met at Brancaster in Norfolk. At the beginning of their courtship, she was still studying music in...

This letter (fully titled A Letter to Dr. Holdsworth, occasioned by his Sermon preached before the University of Oxford on Easter-Monday, concerning the resurrection of the same body. In which the passages that concern Mr...

She moved to Oxford in order to be close to her friends Janet Wallace (one of her former students) and her husband the Hegelian philosopher and Oxford academic William Wallace . The Wallaces originated from...

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...

After Oxford (where she gave the lectures which launched her scholarly career), HW applied for various academic jobs, which her biographer Monica Blackett considers it lucky she did not get. (Many of these jobs included...

While she was a recently-enrolled graduate student at Oxford in early 1921, HW gave, by invitation, her first course of lectures. In 1926 she did another series of eight lectures on medieval mime. She intended...

The last of these returns to the rural labouring class for her protagonist's origins, and follows him as his winning of a scholarship to Oxford (a result of the Butler Education Act of August 1944)...