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Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
MAW was much later employed (in 1882 and 1888) as an examiner in Spanish for the Taylorian scholarship at Oxford .
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers.
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Textual Production Mary Augusta Ward
She was one of the first women permitted to use the library; Oxford University was still an all-male institution. The essay was reprinted anonymously the same year in the distinguished university journal The Dark Blue...
Characters Mary Augusta Ward
Isabel Bretherton is a beautiful but untaught actress from the colonies (born of a Scots father and Italian mother). She falls in love with an Oxford scholar, Eustace Kendal. but is deeply wounded by his...
Characters Mary Augusta Ward
The book is a tribute to the OxfordMAW so loved. The book traces the arrival of an orphaned heiress at the home of her uncle, a married and financially struggling Reader in classics at...
Characters Mary Augusta Ward
The novel focuses on the war effort at home. A country squire and antiquarian is converted from resistance to enthusiasm for the cause through the traumatic death of his son and, above all, the influence...
Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
MAW involved herself in the cause of higher education for women at Oxford .
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
With Mrs Augustus Vernon Harcourt , MAW became inaugural secretary of the Somerville Committee which was dedicated to the formation of a women's college at Oxford .
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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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.
Friends, Associates Mary Augusta Ward
In 1868 Mary Augusta Arnold met Mark Pattison , Rector of Lincoln College and a prominent Oxford scholar, and his wife, Emily Francis Pattison , a former art student and connoisseur. Unconventional and bohemian, the...
Textual Production Doreen Wallace
DW 's first published novel, A Little Learning (titled from Alexander Pope ), satirically depicts both the all-female world of an Oxford women's college and the world beyond the college walls, heterosexual but restrictive for...
Family and Intimate relationships Doreen Wallace
DW never names the man, a childhood friend who came back from the Great War with a shattered knee, who broke her heart by failing fully to return the passionate love which developed between them...
Literary Setting Doreen Wallace
Olive Flowerdew, a Suffolk smallholder's daughter, home from her first vacation from Oxford , finds herself alienated from her family: from her father, who is generously willing to be left behind as she gets ahead...
Literary responses Doreen Wallace
Of Do Come and Bring Your Fiends [sic], in which a young woman with a recent Oxford degree finds and loses love, June Shepherd wrote the pain leaps clear from these pages.
Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Doreen Wallace
The last of these returns to the rural labouring class for her protagonist's origins, and follows him as his winning of a scholarship to Oxford (a result of the Butler Education Act of August 1944)...
Occupation Helen Waddell
After Oxford (where she gave the lectures which launched her scholarly career), HW applied for various academic jobs, which her biographer Monica Blackett considers it lucky she did not get. (Many of these jobs included...
Material Conditions of Writing Helen Waddell
While she was a recently-enrolled graduate student at Oxford in early 1921, HW gave, by invitation, her first course of lectures. In 1926 she did another series of eight lectures on medieval mime. She intended...

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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.

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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