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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...

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...

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

Both works (mentioned by her daughter-biographer) circulated widely in manuscript copies (particularly in the masculine environment of Oxford University ) and in printed miscellanies. Nadine N. W. Akkerman (who has argued Elizabeth Cary Falkland's probable...

On coming down from Oxford in 1965, AO submitted to the Manchester Guardian an essay entitled On the Disadvantages of an Oxford Education. They rejected it.

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...

As a child Penelope Knox, together with her brother produced a family magazine. In 1980 she observed: The stories I wrote at the age of eight and nine did not bring me the success I...

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.

EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...

MS outstanding intellectual achievements were memorialised in the foundation after her death of Somerville College as an Oxford University women's college. In 2017 she was honoured with an image (in a fetching bonnet) on the...

Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...

ES 's musical career earned her two honorary Doctorates of Music: from the University of Durham in 1911, and from Oxford in 1926 (the first woman so honoured who was not part of the Oxford...

Despite all this, by the Renaissance enough survived for two leading Italian critics, Longinus and Dionysios of Halikarnassos , each to quote at full length a poem of Sappho 's, which they thereby preserved. Other...

RP was elected (by a vote of all available Oxford University graduates) Oxford's Professor of Poetry, to a Chair created in 1708 and never yet held by a woman. She resigned, however, after nine days.