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.
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Occupation | William Morris | While still at Oxford
, WM
began writing poetry with great dedication. He eventually published poems, stories, articles, and a single review (of Robert Browning
's Men and Women) in the periodical he produced... |
Occupation | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | After finishing her BA degree at Oxford
, KKD
returned to Calcutta to teach at Jadavpur University
for one year. Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. “Forging a Bilingual Identity: A Writer’s Testimony”. Bilingual Women: Anthropological Approaches to Second Language Use, edited by Pauline Burton et al., Berg, 1994, pp. 170-85. 175 |
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... |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | 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. Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press, 2004. 59 Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press, 1978. 35 |
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, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 64 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. |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Occupation | Gillian Allnutt | Sheba Feminist Publishers
, established in January 1980, is a small independent publisher that champions the work of marginalized UK women. This includes the writing of women who [haven't] been to Oxford
or Cambridge
... |
Occupation | Maude Royden | The year after completing her education at Oxford
, MR
went to work at the Victoria Women's Settlement
in the slums of Liverpool. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 31 Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1922. prelims |
Occupation | Elizabeth Carter | Edward Moore
's periodical The World mooted the extraordinary concept of EC
as principal of an Oxford
or Cambridge
college: this number may be by Hester Mulso Chapone
. The World. R. and J. Dodsley. 131: 790 |
Occupation | Maude Royden | 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. Royden, Maude. A Threefold Cord. Victor Gollancz, Nov. 1947. 30 “The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library. 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. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (31 July 1956): 10 |
Other Life Event | Charlotte Yonge | 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
. Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996. viii Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | 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... |
politics | Maude Royden | 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... |
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. |
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