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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Penelope Mortimer | Again the subject is an unhappy marriage, in which the wife is plaintive and neurotic and the dislikeable husband is (as a change from the law) a dentist. |
| Cultural formation | Barbara Cartland | |
| Cultural formation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 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... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell
, Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University
and the University Press
), was her... |
| Cultural formation | Marghanita Laski | |
| Cultural formation | Marina Warner | Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. qtd. in Williams, Elaine. “Marina Warner”. Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World, edited by Sian Griffiths, Manchester University Press, 1996, pp. 259-67. 261 |
| death | Mary Somerville | After her death, much of MS
's library was presented to the Ladies' College at Hitchin (now Girton College
, Cambridge), and in 1879 Somerville College
at Oxford University was named after her. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16. 212 |
| 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/. Waugh, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. Chapman, 1928. prelims |
| Education | Maude Royden | MR
had two years at Cheltenham Ladies' College
, from which she won a place at Oxford
. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 13 “Agnes Maude Royden Biography”. BookRags.com. Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1922. prelims |
| Education | Catherine Carswell | CC
attended the Glasgow School of Art. On her return from Frankfurt she studied English Literature at Queen Margaret's College
, the women's college which for nearly a decade had been part of Glasgow University |
| Education | Ann Bridge | |
| 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... |
| Education | Anna Kavan | After her father's death, her mother moved her to a boarding school at Lausanne in Switzerland, and then to a progressive girls' school, Parsons Mead School in Ashtead, Surrey. Before long Helen had... |
| Education | Iris Murdoch | IM
took her Honours BA, First Class, in Greats (classics, ancient history, and philosophy) at Somerville College
, Oxford. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 133 |
| Education | Iris Murdoch | At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University
and a place at Vassar
in New York State, as... |
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1850: Oxford established Honours examination schools...
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1850
Oxford
established Honours examination schools in mathematics and science, ending the academic monopoly of the classics.
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
X: 952
1854: The Oxford University Reform Act first allowed...
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1854
The Oxford University
Reform Act first allowed Jews to matriculate and take degrees.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
8-9
By 4 March 1854: Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report...
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1 January 1856: The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge...
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1 January 1856
The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine was published; it sold for a shilling.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 724
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 725
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 723-5, 729
1860: Oxford University included midwifery in its...
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1860
Oxford University included midwifery in its medical degree.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
65
November 1860: Thomas Hill Green became one of the first...
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November 1860
Thomas Hill Green
became one of the first laymen to hold a fellowship at Balliol College
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
October 1865: Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's...
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October 1865
Elizabeth Garrett
obtained an apothecary's licence through the Society of Apothecaries
: this began her medical career, after her rejection by the Universities of London
, Edinburgh
, St Andrews
, Oxford
, and Cambridge
.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
156
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
106
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
66
1870: Oxford University permitted the Delegacy...
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1870
Oxford University
permitted the Delegacy of Local Examinations to examine girls in secondary education.
Markham, Felix. Oxford. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.
155
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
33
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
105
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
174
1871: The University Test Act abolished all religious...
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1871
The University Test Act abolished all religious tests (of loyalty to the Church of England
) at both ancient universities in England (Oxford
and Cambridge
) for admittance to matriculation, degrees, prizes, and fellowships.
Veale, Sir Douglas. “Modern Oxford”. Handbook to the University of Oxford, 1969th ed., Oxford University Press, 1969, pp. 29-50.
32-3
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
xvii
March 1871: The first issue of the Oxford University...
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March 1871
The first issue of the Oxford University literary periodical entitled The Dark Blue was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 178-9, 182
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
170
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1873: Administrative consternation was caused when...
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1873
Administrative consternation was caused when the top-ranked candidate in the Oxford Senior Local Examination turned out to be a woman, or girl: the seventeen-year-old Annie Rogers
. Girls had been eligible to sit these exams...
1875: Oxford University instituted separate examinations...
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1875
Oxford University
instituted separate examinations for women at every level.
Trickett, Rachel. “Women’s Education”. St. Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford, edited by Penny Griffin, Macmillan, 1986, pp. 5-14.
8
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
46, 66-8
4 June 1878: Lady Margaret Hall, a women's college at...
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4 June 1878
Lady Margaret Hall
, a women's college at Oxford University
named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
, was founded.
Grier, Miss L. “Women’s Education at Oxford”. Handbook to the University of Oxford, Clarendon, 1956, pp. 291-9.
291-2
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31. 29, 30
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
268
1883: J. S. Burdon Sanderson's election as Professor...
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1883
J. S. Burdon Sanderson
's election as Professor of Physiology at Oxford
prompted the most publicized nineteenth-century debate between anti-vivisectionists and the proponents of vivisection as an educational tool for studying medicine.
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press, 1975.
275
29 April 1884: Oxford University began admitting women to...
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29 April 1884
Oxford University began admitting women to honours examinations for degrees, although they were still not awarded the actual degree.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
908
Pedersen, Joyce Senders. The Reform of Girls’ Secondary and Higher Education in Victorian England: A Study of Elites and Educational Change. Garland, 1987.
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