Oxford University

Her mother, born Betty Smith, took university degrees at Manchester and Oxford universities.

While she was studying English at Oxford University in the early 1960s, Ketaki Kushari (later KKD ) began to publish Bengali poems in various Indian literary magazines. Her first volume of poetry, Bolkol...

In 1981, Ananda Publishers of Calcutta issued KKD 's autobiographical sketches written in Bengali, Nari, Nogori. Here KKD remembers her undergraduate years at Oxford . She especially focuses on her friendships with Eastern Europeans...

When it was performed at a Writing Diasporas Conference held in Swansea, Night's Sunlight generated strong critical response.Tom Cheesman , of the University of Wales at Swansea, found strong topical interest for Wales...

KKD feels strongly that the difficulty she has faced in attracting an English-speaking audience and commanding the attention of English-speaking critics is related to her ethnicity and bilingualism. Most of the slender English criticism of...

Ketaki Kushari married Robert Dyson , an Englishman and then a graduate student, whom she had met during her own undergraduate studies at Oxford University .

KKD worked on her a DPhil in English from Oxford University .

After finishing her BA degree at Oxford , KKD returned to Calcutta to teach at Jadavpur University for one year.

KKD began translating from Bengali to English in the 1960s, while she was still studying at Oxford . In 1964 her first translation was published in Poetry Ireland: a poem by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore

Both works (mentioned by her daughter-biographer) circulated widely in manuscript copies (particularly in the masculine environment of Oxford University ) and in printed miscellanies. Nadine N. W. Akkerman (who has argued Elizabeth Cary Falkland's probable...

Elizabeth Knyvett married Thomas Clinton, Earl of Lincoln , an Oxford graduate; if her generally accepted birth-date is accurate, she was legally married as a child.

Her speeches in general are models of grand and persuasive rhetoric; they are designed to inspire patriotism and loyalty, while refusing to be pinned down on policy detail. Elizabeth's frequent references to her gender combine...

She got as far as renting a house for her school, but it seems that events then overtook her. Since her edition had failed, she had to refund money put up by subscribers, and once...

After her rescue from poverty and obscurity EE was visited by scholars eager to discuss their work with her. Edward Rowe Mores (who published a standard work on type-founding in 1754) visited her late in...

The full title is Some Testimonies of Learned Men, in Favour of the Intended Edition of the Saxon Homilies, concerning the learning of the author of those homilies; and the advantages to be hoped for...