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Other Life Event Charlotte Yonge
A subscription was raised at Winchester School to found a scholarship in honour of CY , to take boys from the school on to Oxford or Cambridge .
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Reception Mary Wollstonecraft
Katharine Marion Metcalfe , a recent graduate at Oxford University , did something extraordinary in enquiring of Professor Sir Walter Raleigh whether materials existed for research on MW . Raleigh proposed that Metcalfe should edit Jane Austen instead.
Barchas, Janine. “The Lost Books of Austen Studies”. States of the Book. CSECS/SCEDHS annual conference.
Education Jeanette Winterson
JW attended Accrington Girls' Grammar School, then Accrington College of Further Education. Although she first failed the Oxford University entrance exams, she travelled to meet with the authorities and persuaded them to give her a...
Characters Evelyn Waugh
Its young male protagonist, recently an Oxford undergraduate, is enabled by his stupid attempt at suicide to achieve a brief, exalted feeling of being poised between life and death. The technique is experimental, drawing on...
Dedications Evelyn Waugh
Its working title was Untoward Incidents. It was rejected as obscene by Duckworth before Waugh turned to his father's firm.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It is dedicated in Homage and Affection to EW 's Oxford friend and mentor Harold Acton .
Waugh, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. Chapman.
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Textual Features Evelyn Waugh
The man who emerges as the white protagonist of the story, Basil Seal, is in trouble with his feckless, privileged circle at home, fed up and wanting to get away, when he is invited to...
Literary Setting Evelyn Waugh
The viewpoint here is that of the narrator, Charles Ryder, as he looks back nostalgically from his current army milieu to the vanished privilege of an English country house and an Oxford college. Ryder is...
Textual Production Evelyn Waugh
Waugh had begun keeping a diary as an adolescent, but he evidently destroyed those parts that covered his years at Oxford . Also missing from the extant diary are any account of the end of...
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Warton
JW 's brothers, Joseph (her elder by two years) and Thomas (her younger by six), each made a name for himself in the literary and academic worlds. Joseph was Headmaster of Winchester College (a public...
Textual Production Marina Warner
The book emerged from the Clarendon Lectures given at Oxford in 2001.
Jays, David. “Forever changes”. The Observer.
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...
Friends, Associates Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW 's early friendships at Oxford involved young men whom she had known at Harrow, such as David Garnett and sculptor Stephen Tomlin .
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, p. vii - xvii.
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Warner, Sylvia Townsend, and David Garnett. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner / Garnett Letters, edited by Richard Garnett, Sinclair-Stevenson, p. various pages.
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Throughout her life, she wrote frequent, engaging and witty...
Education Marina Warner
MW received an Oxford BA in Modern Languages (French and Italian) from Lady Margaret Hall ; following this she received her MA as well.
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research.
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Cultural formation Marina Warner
Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl.
Williams, Elaine. Marina Warner. Editor Griffiths, Sian, Manchester University Press, pp. 259-67.
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From domestic activities with her Italian mother and maids in what she terms the basement world of female secrets, she learned about...
Occupation Marina Warner
MW began her career as a journalist while at Oxford , editing the University magazine Isis; she then freelanced for many journals and newspapers, including Vogue. She also worked in radio broadcasting from...

Timeline

1167: Oxford University was founded....

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1167

Oxford University was founded.

1502: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...

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1502

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (also known as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of the future Henry VII ), endowed the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge University.

1575: The University of Leiden was founded as a...

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1575

The University of Leiden was founded as a centre of Protestant learning (as were a number of new Oxford and Cambridge colleges at about this time, with the same religio-political agenda).

11 July 1637: The Bodleian Library's right to one copy...

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11 July 1637

The Bodleian Library 's right to one copy of each new book published in Britain was re-established by order of Archbishop Laud , who happened at the time to be Chancellor of Oxford University .

1710: Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through...

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1710

Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through the university press the first of the nine volumes of The Itinerary of John Leland , Antiquary.

18 June 1723-1724: A periodical entitled The Visiter was published...

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18 June 1723-1724

A periodical entitled The Visiter was published in London; it promised its readers to be a friend to them.

1768: The Countess of Huntingdon opened Trevecca...

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1768

The Countess of Huntingdon opened Trevecca College , for the training of evangelical Dissenting ministers, at Trevecca, Brecknockshire, Wales.

July 1773: The Westminster Magazine printed, along with...

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July 1773

The Westminster Magazine printed, along with its account of Oxford University 's annual degree-giving, an article by L. P.On the Propriety of Bestowing Academical Honours on the Ladies.

4 October 1784: James Sadler, a technician in the chemistry...

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4 October 1784

James Sadler , a technician in the chemistry laboratory of Oxford University , made a successful hot-air balloon flight, taking off from Christchurch Meadows, Oxford, and landing near Woodeaton, several miles away.

1805: The East India Company established a training...

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1805

The East India Company established a training college for civil servants.

10 October 1813: Mark Pattison, future Tractarian, scholar,...

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10 October 1813

Mark Pattison , future Tractarian , scholar, author, and Oxford academic, was born at Hornby in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

1 October 1828: The Cambridge campaign to increase the study...

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1 October 1828

The Cambridge campaign to increase the study of science in universities resulted in the founding of University College, London , which emphasized science; this was the date of the inaugural lecture.

20 February 1829: The first issue of the provocative London...

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20 February 1829

The first issue of the provocative London Review was published by Oxford intellectuals.

1832: The University of Durham was founded....

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1832

The University of Durham was founded.

5 April 1843: John Ruskin, as a Graduate of Oxford, published...

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5 April 1843

John Ruskin , as a Graduate of Oxford, published the first volume of Modern Painters.

Texts

Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Verse of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. A Critical Edition. Editor Grundy, Isobel, Oxford University, 1971.