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Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Kazantzis | JK
's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers
(later the Home Guard)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Warton | JW
's brothers, Joseph
(her elder by two years) and Thomas
(her younger by six), each made a name for himself in the literary and academic worlds. Joseph was Headmaster of Winchester College
(a public... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
's father was the Reverend George Henry Billington
, who served as rector of Chalbury from 1861 to 1904. He was an antiquarian who corresponded with Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
and contributed to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Goudge | The Goudge family moved from Ely to Oxford when EG
's father
became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Carrington knew Rex Partridge
by mid 1918; he was a friend of Noel Carrington
at Oxford University
, and was introduced to her by John Hope Johnstone
. Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 138 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | Their brother Trevenen committed suicide in August 1914, having done (comparatively) badly in exams at Oxford
, and fallen in love with a girl who worked as a maid (whom his family regarded as impossible)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Pix | MP
's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford
and Cambridge
universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School
in Buckingham... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Rigby | In June the previous year he had received an honorary degree from Oxford University
. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 100-1 |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. J. Scovell | He was a son of the man of letters Oliver Elton
. At the time of his wedding to EJS
he was Oxford University
's Reader in Animal Ecology and a Senior Research Fellow of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elspeth Huxley | She hoped for more children, but this did not happen. Meanwhile, she found the organization of childcare difficult in her extremely busy life. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 165-6, 180-1, 204 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grant Allen | GA
's first wife, whom he married while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford
, died prematurely. He married again the year after her death, and he and his second wife had one son. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Louisa Catherine Shore | Her father, Thomas Shore
, received his education at Oxford
and was a Church of England
clergyman until his reservations about the Thirty-Nine Articles led him to redirect his energies to private tutoring. He educated... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Sewell | James Edwards Sewell
(1810-1903) became an academic. He served as Warden of New College, Oxford
, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green. xi The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | In a poem written at the age of twenty-one Elizabeth Sophia mentions four little sisters and a little brother, aged from two and a half to eleven and a half. She was evidently closest, emotionally... |
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