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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...
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 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
MAW involved herself in the cause of higher education for women at Oxford .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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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.
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Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press, 1978.
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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, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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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, 1990.
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.
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Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1922.
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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, 1918.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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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