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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.
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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.
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Amid the mixing of...
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 “Sylvia Pankhurst’s Last Words on Christabel: an unpublished letter of February 1958”.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.
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and took the child with her to Canada when she went there in 1921. In Betty's early years she was mainly raised by a...
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
RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds.
Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm.
website
Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...
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.
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He had been a poverty-stricken student, then a Fellow of All Souls.
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
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He became librarian of the...
Publishing Ann Oakley
On coming down from Oxford in 1965, AO submitted to the Manchester Guardian an essay entitled On the Disadvantages of an Oxford Education. They rejected it.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992.
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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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