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Connections Author name Excerpt
Characters Ethel Mannin
Starridge is a recent Oxford graduate whom his family and acquaintance find distinctly odd. He is unable to relate to others and prefers working as a freelance poet to employment in his father's accountancy firm...
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 Barbara Cartland
BC , English on both sides, claimed to be able to trace her paternal lineage to the fifteenth century and her maternal one to the eleventh. Her biographer, Tim Heald , however, points that her...
Cultural formation Marghanita Laski
ML grew up in a liberal, Jewish family of high-level professionals. Her maternal grandfather had been banished from Romania in 1885 and made his new home in England. ML described her childhood religious belief in...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Burnet
EB was born into an English gentry 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...
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...
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, pp. 208-16.
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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.
prelims
Education Ray Strachey
Ray Costelloe (later RS ) became the first woman to attend lectures on electrical engineering at Oxford .
Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books.
249-50
Education Joseph Addison
Joseph attended various schools, including Charterhouse , before going on to Oxford , where he was a member of two successive colleges. He later travelled to France and Italy on a grant from his college...
Education Adrienne Rich
AR won a Guggenheim fellowship, which enabled her to study at Oxford and travel through Italy.
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
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Education Naomi Alderman
The same could not be said of Oxford University , where she achieved a place to study PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). She had little social life at her college, since it would not provide...
Education Jennifer Dawson
JD received her BA in history from Oxford , after final exams postponed for a year because of a health breakdown.
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.
Whitby, Joy. “In Memory of Jennifer Hinton (Dawson 1949)”. The Ship, Vol.
91
, pp. 54-5.
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Education Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Haldane, aged sixteen (later NM ), enrolled as an Oxfordhome student in what later became St Anne's College.
Mitchison, Naomi. All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage. Bodley Head.
110-1
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

Timeline

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.

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.

By 4 March 1854: Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report...

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By 4 March 1854

Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report on the Organization of the Permanent Civil Service.

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.

1860: Oxford University included midwifery in its...

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1860

Oxford University included midwifery in its medical degree.

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 .

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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