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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 | |
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 | 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 | Mary Augusta Ward | |
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 |
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 |
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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