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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Pix | MP
's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford
and Cambridge
universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School
in Buckingham... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Winifred Peck | A diary she kept during her last few weeks as an Oxford
undergraduate was, she lated judged, rendered tedious by its starry-eyed, over-romantic enumeration of natural and architectural beauties. Peck, Winifred. A Little Learning; or, A Victorian Childhood. Faber and Faber, 1952. 154 |
Characters | Winifred Peck | It is her mother, Ione decides, who is the rock of this house, while her father is the sands—a splendid stretch with good safe bathing, but sand all the same! Peck, Winifred. Veiled Destinies. Faber and Faber, 1948. 189 |
Occupation | Walter Pater | Some time during the Balliol
scandal, Benjamin Jowett
gave WP
a stern warning, and may have advised him not to apply for university positions. Soon afterwards he was passed over for a university Proctorship. During... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | She was very fond of Betty as a little girl, qtd. in Pankhurst, Richard Keir Pethick. “Sylvia Pankhurst’s Last Words on Christabel: an unpublished letter of February 1958”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 467-9. 469 |
Reception | Ruth Padel | RP
was elected (by a vote of all available Oxford University
graduates) Oxford's Professor of Poetry, to a Chair created in 1708 and never yet held by a woman. She resigned, however, after nine days. Batty, David. “Ruth Padel elected first female Oxford professor of poetry”. The Guardian, 17 May 2009. Wardrop, Murray, and Laura Roberts. “Ruth Padel quits as Oxford University’s Professor of Poetry amid ’sex smear claims’”. Daily Telegraph, 25 June 2009. |
Employer | Ruth Padel | |
Employer | Ruth Padel | In May 2009 she was elected the first-ever woman Professor of Poetry at Oxford
, but she resigned nine days later after revealing that she had informed a couple of journalists about past sexual harassment... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Padel | She claimed to have forgotten about this article when discussion reached her some years later about how its title had been linked with a line by Robert Graves
to form the graffito Far away is... |
Literary responses | Ruth Padel | Her election was marred by unpleasantness. Another of the three short-listed candidates, Caribbean poet Derek Walcott
, withdrew from the competition after a letter-writing campaign brought to the attention of potential voters the fact that... |
Occupation | Alice Oswald | AO was elected by a large majority to the 311-year-old Chair of Poetry at Oxford University
, as the first woman to hold the position. Lea, Richard. “Alice Oswald elected Oxford professor of poetry by huge margin”. The Guardian, 21 June 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/21/alice-oswald-elected-oxford-professor-of-poetry-by-huge-margin. |
Author summary | Alice Oswald | AO is a contemporary poet, the first to hold the historic position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University
. Her work includes multimedia and performance poetry. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Carola Oman | CO
's father, Charles Oman
, said that his early life had been most unhappy. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. 35 Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. 38-9 |
Publishing | Ann Oakley | |
Education | Kathleen Nott | KN
's class of degree in her BA in PPE from Oxford University
was announced: she was awarded a fourth-class BA (a class which was popularly believed to reflect not lack of ability but rather... |
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