Oxford University

Through the Rev. Hudson Shaw 's influence as a lecturer at Oxford University 's Extension Summer School , MR became a lecturer in English literature in the Extension Delegacy programme.

Educated at Oxford , MA was a school inspector from 1851 to 1886 and remained dedicated to the improvement of the English educational system throughout his life. He began publishing first as a poet, but...

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...

WJC became Professor of Poetry at Oxford and was responsible for finishing an important edition of Alexander Pope which had been begun by Whitwell Elwin . As an editor he tended to read Pope's later...

Soon after leaving OxfordER became a Visitor for the Liverpool Central Relief Society , which was linked to the Charity Organization Society (COS): her first formal experience, it seems, in social work.

MW began her career as a journalist while at Oxford , editing the University magazine Isis; she then freelanced for many journals and newspapers, including Vogue. She also worked in radio broadcasting from...

A subscription was raised at Winchester School to found a scholarship in honour of CY , to take boys from the school on to Oxford or Cambridge .

Two full-length plays also had student productions at Oxford : Having a Wonderful Time (Questors Theatre , 1960), and Easy Death (Oxford Playhouse , 1961). Easy Death brought Churchill to the attention of...

MR first came into contact with the women's suffrage movement in 1905, when she arrived at Oxford University as a lecturer in the Extension Delegacy programme. Soon after her arrival she was swept into the...

A new edition of ADA 's Academia appeared, again anonymously, in response to a recent play: The Humours of Oxford , A Comedy, by a Wadham undergraduate.

MR had a poem published in the Oxford undergraduate magazine Fritillary.

In NB 's third year at Oxford , John Wain started a new literary magazine, Mandrake, which published her first short story.

While she was studying English at Oxford University in the early 1960s, Ketaki Kushari (later KKD ) began to publish Bengali poems in various Indian literary magazines. Her first volume of poetry, Bolkol...

The book went through many stages and revisions before publication: the first draft had been finished in February 1944. A related draft and stories survive, but no complete manuscript. Larkin wrote that he was...

The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed . It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...